Reading Nonfiction Text

Titles tell the reader what the article is about.

This article is about river otters and sea otters.

The title makes me think that this article will compare river otters and sea otters.

Charts give the reader more information always read the charts.

This chart compares sea otters and river otters.

This chart tells me about

- the size of otters in pounds

- diet of otters

- habitats of otters

- number of young per liter that otters can have

- taken with a camera

- captions tell the reader information about the photograph

- this photograph and caption show me that river otters eat fish

- the other photograph and caption show me that sea otters can float and that they can live in California

- Bold words are important words

- In this article kelp and waterproof are bold in the article

- pay extra close attention to the sentences with bold words

- kelp help sea otters float

- waterproof describes otter's fur