Text features and geo terms

Today in Humanities, we talked about the differences between reading an informational text and reading a fiction text. We discovered that our brains function differently when we read these types of texts. We then analyzed texts for text features and created a long list of those that we found. Some of the text features we found were: title, bold-faced words, paragraphs organized by topics, pictures, definitions, headings and sub-headings, captions, information boxes, index, table of contents, charts, step-by-step instructions, web links, diagrams, labels and maps. We discussed how text features help us as readers.

In the Social Studies portion of class, we read an informational text and used a graphic organizer to define and use several geography terms. The terms we discussed and applied were:

1. absolute location- the precise point where a place is located on Earth
2. distortion- a change in the shape, size or position of a place when it is shown on a map
3. map projection- a way of representing the spherical Earth on a flat surface
4. relative location- where a place is located in relation to another place

HOMEWORK: Students will write sentences with each of their MULTI and POLY vocab words. They need to get a parent signature on both the MONO vocab quiz and the Reading Strategy quiz. Lastly, they need to bring in a copy of an informational text from home and be prepared to share which text features that text utilizes.