A mocked-up nonfiction page about frogs sits at the center of this 2-page 1st grade labeling sheet. Letters A to E point to parts of the page, and students label them from a word bank: Photograph, Page Number, Heading, Bold Word and Caption. The FROGS title is the heading, "A green frog sits on a leaf." is the caption, and SKIN is the bold word. It is short, focused practice for Common Core RI.1.5, and the answer key matches each letter to its feature.
RI.1.5
“Know and use various text features (e.g., headings, tables of contents, glossaries, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text.”
Students name five text features on the frog page, the same ones they later use to find facts in a real book.
Instructions and a five-word bank sit above a picture of a frog book page.
Dotted lines run from A and B on the left to the title and the frog picture, and from C, D and E on the right to the caption, the bold word SKIN and the page number 4. Students write one feature name on each line.
A is the heading, B the photograph, C the caption, D the bold word and E the page number.
Before a nonfiction read-aloud
Label the sheet together, then open a real animal book and find the same five features. The terms stick faster with a book in hand.
Caption or heading
Students mix up caption and heading most. Point out that the caption sits next to the picture and tells about it.
Why is it bold
D points to SKIN in "Most frogs have very smooth, wet SKIN." Ask students why a book would print that one word in bold.
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