I Spy Components and Characteristics of an Informative

I Spy Components and Characteristics of an Informative Text By: Aruzhan, Arsen and Jaewoo 1

Introduction In non-fiction text books, there are lots of non-fiction text features. If non-fiction books don’t have those, it will be less detail, less interesting and will be hard to understand author’s meaning. Today, I’m going to tell about non-fiction text features. Enjoy! 2

Graphic Features Graphic features can explain about data easily by showing diagrams, maps, charts, timelines, etc. I think graphic features are the best ways to show data. 3

Diagrams A drawing or plan that outlines and explains the parts, operation, etc. , of something: I shows the arrival times of P and S waves. 4

Maps This map explains people’s movement and I can see they moved through Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. 5

Charts This chart shows the number that existed in Maya. 6

Timelines It shows a timeline. A timeline is a line that shows information in order. A timeline of World War 1. It shows what happened during the war. 7

Text Features Text features are the features which is about the text. 8

Headings Heading means title of a page. The heading is Think Like a Scientist. This heading shows me that the page is going to be about scientists. 9

Captions I can understand that Gilgamesh was a legendary king of Uruk. 10

Special type Different kind of font to Show that this word is important. 11

Text Structure 12

Narrative Special type of writing. 13

Sequence In this text, I can notice that the coal is the rock made out of dead plants and new layers form and squeezes the coal. After millions of years, dead plants becomes coal. 14

Compare/Contrast In this text I can notice that outer core and inner core are made out of iron and nickel, but outer core is liquid and inner core is solid. 15

Cause/Effect In this text, I can understand that because of plate moving, the land’s shape changes. 16

Problem/Solution In this text, the miners are homeless but the mine created and they worked there. 17

Description I can understand by word’s description. 18

Conclusion I prefer you to use compare and contrast feature because in my opinion comparing two things it’s fun. All of the pictures I used is my science textbook. 19

Conclusion I enjoyed doing my presentation a lot. My favorite feature is diagram because it has a lot of arrows connected to one body of information. 20

Conclusion In my opinion, timeline is the most helpful non-fiction text features in historical nonfiction books because it makes reader understand easily by showing what happened in timeline. 21

Resources Earth’s Structure, Interactive Science, Pearson 22