1. Comprehension Strategy: Text Features
ESL

2. Why are we learning this?
To help you succeed in your core classes. Math, History, Chemistry, English, Spanish.
To help you help yourself learn more.
If you use this in your other classes it will help you!

3. What is Comprehension? Let’s talk about it.
If you comprehend a book, article, or TV show then you…
Can understand its deeper meaning
Can relate to it
Can explain it to someone else

4. Strategy
A step by step plan that helps the reader to dig deeply (more than just understand what the words mean) and understand as much as they can about a topic.
It helps us to become better readers.

5. What’s a text? Anything that you read… Your ideas… Article Play
Textbook
Novel

6. What’s a Text Feature? pictures captions bold print index
table of contents
glossary
title
subtitle
headings
pictures
graphs
graphic organizers