2.9.D.ii
The Standard
features and graphics to locate and gain information
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading · The student recognizes and analyzes genre-specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse texts.
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students use headings, captions, labels, diagrams, maps, bold print, glossaries, and indexes to find facts. They explain what each feature helps them learn.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students quickly choose the heading, caption, diagram, map, index, or glossary that answers a question. They explain the information they found and how the feature helped.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat captions, labels, maps, and diagrams as decoration. They may also choose a feature without explaining what information it provides.
How to Assess It
- Give students one informational page with a heading, caption, and diagram. Ask, "Which feature helps you learn where the animal lives, and what does it tell you?"
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a nonfiction book and sticky notes to label headings, captions, diagrams, maps, bold words, glossaries, and indexes.
Display a diagram and ask, "What can you learn here that the paragraph does not tell you?"
Play Feature Hunt by naming a question and having teams point to the page feature most likely to answer it.
Examine a bus schedule, menu, or weather map and identify which visual features help readers find needed information quickly.
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Related Standards
- 1.9.D.ii
features and simple graphics to locate or gain information; and
- 5.9.D.ii
features such as insets, timelines, and sidebars to support understanding; and
- K.8.D.ii
titles and simple graphics to gain information; and
- 3.9.D.ii
features such as sections, tables, graphs, timelines, bullets, numbers, and bold and italicized font to support understanding; and
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