Text Feature Meaning. 4th Grade ELA Worksheets and Study Guides.

◂English Language Arts Worksheets and Study Guides Fourth Grade. Text Feature Meaning

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Text Feature Meaning

The resources above cover the following skills:

General Reading Processes

Students will use a variety of strategies and opportunities to understand word meaning and to increase vocabulary.

Understand, acquire, and use new vocabulary

Use context to determine the meanings of words

Students will use a variety of strategies to understand what they read (construct meaning).

Use strategies to prepare for reading (before reading)

Survey and preview the text by examining features such as the title, illustrations, photographs, charts, and graphs

Comprehension of Informational Text

Develop comprehension skills by reading a variety of self-selected and assigned print and non-print informational texts, including electronic media

Read, use, and identify the characteristics of functional documents such as sets of directions, science investigations, atlases, posters, flyers, forms, instructional manuals, menus, pamphlets, rules, invitations, recipes, advertisements, other functional documents

Identify and use text features to facilitate understanding of informational texts

Use print features such as large bold print, font size/type, italics, colored print, quotation marks, underlining, and other print features encountered in informational texts

Use graphic aids such as illustrations and pictures, photographs, drawings, sketches, cartoons, maps (key, scale, legend, graphs, charts/tables, and diagrams, other graphic aids encountered in informational texts

Use informational aids such as introductions and overviews, materials lists, timelines, captions, glossed words, labels, numbered steps, bulleted lists, footnoted words, pronunciation key, transition words, boxed text

Use organizational aids such as titles, chapter titles, headings, subheadings, tables of contents, numbered steps, glossaries, indices, transition words

Identify and explain the contributions of text features to meaning

Read critically to evaluate informational text

Identify and explain additions or changes to format or text features that would make the text easier to understand

Comprehension of Literary Text

Use text features to facilitate understanding of literary texts

Identify and explain how organizational aids such as the title of the book, story, poem, or play contribute to meaning

Identify and explain how graphic aids such as pictures and illustrations, punctuation, print features contribute to meaning

Identify and explain how informational aids such as introductions and overviews, materials lists, timelines, captions, glossed words, labels, numbered steps, bulleted lists, footnoted words, pronunciation keys, transition words, end notes, works cited, other information aids encountered in informational texts contribute to meaning

Identify and explain how print features such as large bold print, font size/type, italics, colored print, quotation marks, underlining, other print features encountered in informational texts contribute to meaning

Controlling Language

Apply conventional spelling in written language

Modify spellings when adding inflectional endings and suffixes