5.10.C

ELA5th Grade

The Standard

analyze 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 Students Need to Do: Students examine print and graphic features in a text. They explain what each feature helps the author do and how it affects the reader's understanding.
What Mastery Looks Like: Students identify features such as headings, bold print, captions, diagrams, maps, and charts. They use page evidence to explain how each feature organizes, emphasizes, clarifies, or adds information.
Common Misconceptions: Students may name a feature without explaining its purpose. They may say every picture is decorative or confuse what a feature shows with why the author included it.
How to Assess It: Give students a nonfiction page with a heading, bold word, and diagram. Ask them to choose one feature and explain how it helps the author communicate information.

Lesson moves

Give pairs a cut-up article to rebuild, then have them explain where each heading, caption, photo, and diagram belongs.
Ask students to write: Which feature helps you understand the page most, and what would be harder without it?
Play Feature Match by pairing cards showing headings, maps, charts, and bold words with cards naming their likely purposes.
Examine a weather website and discuss how maps, icons, color, headings, and charts help readers make plans.

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