Nonfiction reading is something we do a lot of in the fourth grade. Students are working on skills they will need for the rest of their education. One of the first things we work on is looking for the text features of any nonfiction (true and informational) article in a magazine, selection in a book, text book, newspaper...
Nonfiction text features include: titles, subtitles, headings and subheadings, bold words, key vocabulary, insets with new information or information related to the selection, graphs, maps, diagrams. photos, captions and illustrations.
Students work on looking at the text features before they begin reading. It's like a marathon runner getting ready for a race. "She" will warm up her muscles before walking up to the starting line. When we look over the text features we warm up our brain getting it ready for whatever we read in the selection. We have an idea about what we will be reading, and can make connections to things we already know, before we even start.
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