Take a feature tour
Project a nonfiction page and think aloud: "This heading tells me this part is about food. This caption explains the picture." Then kids tour their own book and name each feature. Seeing you use them first shows why they matter.
Why it works: handing over the work step by step, from teacher to student, is one of the most widely used teaching frameworks (Pearson and Gallagher, 1983).
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