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Chart of Text Features, Forms, and

Text Features Text Forms Genres (Design/presentation) (Physical forms and functions) (Literary or thematic categories)

Structural elements and ( or informational) Adventure navigation aids such as: such as: Table of contents stories told in , , Index short stories, picture Title and topic Headings Recount (fiction or informational) Folk tale Preface or Foreword first-person accounts such as: , journals, short stories, Horror Captions novels, and Footnotes and endnotes Glossary Procedure such as: Mystery Bibliography , rule books, directions Pull-down menus and maps, instruction manuals, Poetry Hyperlinks “how to” books and posters, Realistic fiction experiments fiction Typographical or design elements such as: such as: Font or type style essays, position papers, Bold and italic print articles, advertisements or journal Colour Travel Layout Explanation such as: Atlas textbooks in science, social Textbook Illustrations such as: studies, , geography Reference text Inlays and cross-sections Pull quotes Report such as: Sidebars magazine and Photos reports, letters, editorials, Graphs and charts critical reviews, essays, Timelines posters Maps Electronic text such as: multimedia texts, e-mail, blogs, websites, broadcasts

Functional text such as: lists, memos, notes, pamphlets, brochures, flyers, print advertisements, CD cover inserts, invitations, announcements, programs, business letters, scripts, minutes of a meeting A Guide to Effective Instruction, Grades 4 to 6: A Multivolume Resource from the Ministry of Education (2006), 1:37.

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