Reading Informational Text

Virginia SOL 1.RI.2

Use text features to gain information and distinguish between visual and textual information.

What students need to be able to do

  • Identify and use common text features to gain information, such as table of contents, headings, bolded words, pictures, captions, and diagrams.
  • Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information provided by the words in a text.