1. Understanding Text Structures: A Textbook
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Understanding Text Structures: A Textbook

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The adventures of Rikki-tikki-tavi occurred in India, a country with a unique history and culture.
If you want to know more about India, a geography textbook would be a good place to start.

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To get the most out of your textbooks, make sure that you understand their structure—the features of textbooks that help you learn.
Table of contents
Section heads
Boldface type
Section previews
Reading checks
Review questions
Captions
Insets

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Some textbook features help you locate information quickly.
Table of Contents
Section Heads
Boldface Type

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Other features of textbooks help you learn and review information.
Section Previews
Reading Checks
Review Questions

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The photographs and artwork in textbooks can lead you to investigate a subject further.
Captions
Insets

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How well do you understand the structure of textbooks? Answer these questions using Elements of Literature.
1. Which collection in Elements of Literature will help you learn about point of view?
Hint: Look in the Table of Contents.
2. On what page would you find more information about point of view?
Hint: Look at titles in the Table of Contents.

8. Answer these questions using your Elements of Literature textbook.
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Answer these questions using your Elements of Literature textbook.
1. Which collection in Elements of Literature will help you learn about point of view?
Collection 4
Hint: Look in the Table of Contents.
2. On what page would you find more information about point of view?
Page 347
Hint: Look at titles in the Table of Contents.

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3. Go to page 348 in your textbook. What is different about the type used to present examples?
Hint: The essay provides an example story.
4. How many different points of view are explained in the essay beginning on page 348?
Hint: Look for boldfaced words.
5. What section of the essay is meant to help you review what you read about points of view?
Hint: Find a heading that means “Try it.”

10. Hint: The essay provides an example story.
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3. Go to page 348 in your textbook. What is different about the type used to present examples?
Hint: The essay provides an example story.
The type is blue.
4. How many different points of view are explained in the essay beginning on page 348?
three
Hint: Look for boldfaced words.
5. What section of the essay is meant to help you review what you read about points of view?
Practice
Hint: Find a heading that means “Try it.”

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6. Go to page 84 in your textbook. What two pieces of literature are being compared in the feature that begins on this page?
Hint: Look for a list of titles.
7. What kinds of stories are these?
Hint: Read the section headings.
8. When do these stories take place?
Hint: Look at the photograph on the page.

12. Hint: Look for a list of titles.
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6. Go to page 84 in your textbook. What two pieces of literature are being compared in the feature that begins on this page?
“Zoo” and “The Ruum”
Hint: Look for a list of titles.
7. What kinds of stories are these?
science fiction
Hint: Read the section headings.
8. When do these stories take place?
far in the future
Hint: Look at the photograph on the page.

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9. Flip through the pages of “Zoo,” beginning on page 85. What four reading skills will you practice using?
Hint: Look in the margins.
10. Go to page 88. What elements in these two stories will you be asked to compare?
Hint: Find a comparison chart.

14. Hint: Look in the margins.
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9. Flip through the pages of “Zoo,” beginning on page 85. What four reading skills will you practice using?
Hint: Look in the margins.
identify, compare and contrast, evaluate, interpret
10. Go to page 88. What elements in these two stories will you be asked to compare?
human characters, alien characters, journey through space, futuristic technology, lesson about life
Hint: Find a comparison chart.

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In your textbook there are four pages from the geography textbook People, Places, and Change.
See how well you understand the structure of a textbook as you answer questions about these pages.

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