Text features

​A venn diagram is used to show the similarities and differences between two things.

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​Venn Diagram

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​School buses and cars can both take children to and from school. Buses can carry large groups, but cars can only carry small groups.

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​Timelines display events in the order they happened and often exactly when they happened. Look for specific dates.

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​Timelines

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In 1885, the first gasoline-powered car was invented. Eighteen years later, in 1903, the first airplane with an engine was flown.

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A bar graph shows​ data, or pieces of information, arranged visually, so we can see it and make sense of it.

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​Bar graph

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In 1980, 10 million tons of trash was recycled in the United States.​

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A flow chart shows the order that events happen in. Sometimes, like this flow chart, the events happen in a cycle, meaning they start over and over.​

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​​Flow Chart

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An adult frog lays eggs. Then tadpoles hatch from the eggs. Next the tadpoles develop into froglets. The froglets change into an adult frog which then may lay eggs.

A food label names all the nutrients in the food. It tells exactly how much of each nutrient is in a given amount of the food.​

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​Food Label

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One cup of the cereal has 330 milligrams of sodium. It has 2 grams of protein.​

A pictograph represents data in a visual way. Each picture usually stands for a few objects. ​

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​Pictograph

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Mr. Martin has 25 goats. ​

Mr. Martin has 5 more goats than cows. ​

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This feature shows a schedule. It could be a bus schedule, a daily schedule, a school schedule, or any other schedule. It can show different information but it will always have times and places or events.​

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​Schedule

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​The second grade will leave school on September 8 at 8:00 in the morning. They will go to the park.

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​The table of contents is at the front of a book. It helps you locate the section you are interested in reading.

The section on covert operations starts on page 23.​

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​Table of Contents

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