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Using Text Features

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Investigate a "table of contents" with your students! They read the table of contents in Deserts by Darlene R. Stille and predict where the answers to specific questions might be found. Learners complete a worksheet in which they find answers to questions and record the page number on which the answer can be located.

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nonfiction text features, nonfiction, the table of contents, the parts of a book, text structure, deserts

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deserts, nonfiction text features, table of contents, text structure, using the table of contents, science
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Grade
2nd - 3rd
Subjects
Science
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Resource Type
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Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
45 mins
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Skills Practice
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Common Core

RI.2.1 RI.2.5 RI.2.8 SL.2.2

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