2.10.C
The Standard
discuss the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students find print and graphic features on a page. They explain what each feature helps the reader notice, locate, or understand.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students name features such as headings, captions, bold words, labels, and diagrams. They use page evidence to explain how each feature organizes information, explains an idea, or draws attention.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat every picture as decoration or call every print feature “bold words.” They may describe what a feature shows without explaining why the author included it.
How to Assess It
- Display one nonfiction page with a heading, bold word, and labeled diagram. Ask students to choose one feature and explain its job on that page.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a cut-up nonfiction page to rebuild, matching each heading, caption, label, and picture to the correct information.
Ask students to discuss or write: Why did the author make this word bold instead of leaving it in regular print?
Play a matching game with feature cards and purpose cards, such as caption and explains a photograph.
Examine a cereal box and have students explain how bold print, labels, and pictures help shoppers find information quickly.
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Related Standards
- 6.9.C
analyze the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes;
- 5.10.C
analyze the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes;
- 4.10.C
analyze the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes;
- 3.10.C
explain the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes;
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