Question

24 A. What text features does the author use

in the reading selection to make it
easier to understand?
B. What information do the text features
provide?
Remember to answer all parts of the
question in the space provided. Your
answers should be in ENGLISH, but you
can also answer in SPANISH.

Answer 1

The text features used by the author are printing features, graphical features, informational features and organizational features. They provide information about the story.

Step-by-step explanation:

• Printing features will help the readers to print the highlighted words. It will highlight the bold and important words. Graphical features will provide diagrammatic and graphical information in the passage.
• Informational features will give the most important and valuable information for the reader. They will convey the meaning of the story. The Organizational features will help the reader to organize the ideas.

Answer 2

The author makes use of a sketch to make it easier to understand. This sketch helps to create a picture in the author's and reader's minds. It helps to locate important information used in the text.

Explanation

• Text features are all components and parts of the story which are not the main and integral parts of the text. This includes sketch, drawing, glossary, contents, index, labeled diagram, and captions.
• The core objective of using text features is to assist the reader to draw inference from a given sketch or diagram and connect it with the information provided in the text.
• Here the author makes use of sketch and diagrams to make his information more clear to the readers.