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AT ATI TEAS READING REVIEW PART 4 UNDERSTANDING TEXT FEATURES and REFERENCE SOURCES Text features are defined as the elements that stand out in a text because the passage uses a tool to emphasize them. Several purposes for text features include organization of text, provide indirect information, emphasize certain pieces of information, and to aid the read to quickly locate vital text. AT ATI TEAS READING REVIEW PART 4 AT ATI TEAS READING REVIEW PART 4 UNDERSTANDING TEXT FEATURES and REFERENCE SOURCES UNDERSTANDING TEXT FEATURES and REFERENCE SOURCES Examples of text features are: • Headings and subheadings Important Tip: Text features are important elements of • Footnotes the text, so you should be aware of their use and ask yourself why they were being used. • Sidebars • Index • Glossary • Table of Contents • Graphic elements such as graphs and charts • Map features such as key or legend • Formatting such as italicized, bolded, and underlined text AT ATI TEAS READING REVIEW PART 4 ATI TEAS READING REVIEW PART 4 AT UNDERSTANDING TEXT FEATURES and REFERENCE SOURCES UNDERSTANDING TEXT FEATURES and REFERENCE Primary Source is an original document created by an author. SOURCES • Literacy texts Reference sources are categorized by three different • Speeches sources: primary, secondary, and tertiary. • Maps For example, the book Harry Potter is a primary source. A • Research data book about Harry Potter is a secondary source. A • Historical documents bibliography listing all the books and articles that have • Letters or emails been written about Harry Potter is a tertiary source. • Photographs • Autobiographies • Interviews • Video or audio recordings

ATI TEAS READING REVIEW PART 4 AT AT ATI TEAS READING REVIEW PART 4 UNDERSTANDING TEXT FEATURES and REFERENCE UNDERSTANDING TEXT FEATURES and REFERENCE SOURCES SOURCES Tertiary source is an index or textual consolidation of Secondary source interprets information that was secondary sources. originally published elsewhere. • Summaries • Biographies • Bibliographies • Reprints of artwork • Encyclopedias • Book reviews • Textbooks • Research, essays, and articles that interpret others • Databases work • Dictionaries • Textbooks and reference books • Travel guides AT ATI TEAS READING REVIEW PART 4 AT ATI TEAS READING REVIEW PART 4 EVALUATING AND INTEGRATING DATA UNDERSTANDING TEXT FEATURES and REFERENCE SOURCES Data questions require identification provided in different kinds of resources. For example, identifying the proper Important Tip: The ATI TEAS focuses on your ability to resources to reference in order obtain information. Following categorized sources and locate information with a directions, reading labels and ingredients lists, identifying primary source document. sources, analyzing outlines, recognizing steps in a sequence, and looking up information are a few examples of data questions. • Following directions questions are defined by a set of directions and the user’s ability to identify the outcome that occurs when the directions are followed. • Reading labels and ingredients lists questions ask the user to determine whether a particular food or product is suitable for an individual with certain dietary needs. AT ATI TEAS READING REVIEW PART 4 ATI TEAS READING REVIEW PART 4 AT EVALUATING AND INTEGRATING DATA UNDERSTANDING VOCABULARY • Analyzing outlines questions ask the user to identify Vocabulary questions are defined by providing a patterns in the headings and subheadings of the meaning of a vocabulary word found within the context outline. of a passage. • Identifying sources questions asks the user to identify • Denotation is defined by a word that you would find in the correct information source to use in order to obtain a dictionary. Important: Many words have more than the required information. one meaning. It is important to understand which meaning is used within a text. • Looking up information questions asks the user to look up information and answer a question identifying the • Connotation is defined by what a word suggests or information you collected. implies. For example, the word childish can mean both childlike and youthful as well as mean immature • These questions can be either text information or graphic behavior. information

AT ATI TEAS READING REVIEW PART 4 UNDERSTANDING VOCABULARY • Figurative language is defined as an imparted meaning through creative figurative device such as similes, metaphors, personifications, and hyperboles. • Simile : a comparison using like or as • As brave as a lion • Metaphor : a comparison without like or as • All the world’s a stage • Hyperbole : an exaggeration • This bicycle is a thousand years old • Personification : giving an inanimate object human characteristics • The alarm clock yells at me every morning • Imagery : descriptive language that appeals to the senses • Glittering white, the blanket of snow covered everything in sight