Hand Gestures & Silly Voices
If you are looking for a particular topic and are not sure where to find it, you look carefully in the INDEX, said in a soft and slow contemplating voice.
Is there such thing as a contemplating voice? A thinking voice?
Hmm.
OH. Say it in the same tone that you would say “hmmm.”
We have a few more signals and voices for other text features, but those are the basics. You get the idea. It really doesn’t matter what you come up with, as long as you are allowing your students to be as successful as possible by giving them multi-sensory ways to remember vocabulary words.
RESOURCES
The best resource for teaching nonfiction text features is a good old-fashioned book!
I’ve created some quick nonfiction text feature assessments that you can grab here:
Charity Thomas says
Would you mind sharing your other hand motions for the non-fiction text features? My kids will love these!
Kristin Yann says
Heading: tap the top of your head
Caption: smile and put your hands under your chin (like posing for a picture)
Italic: lean sideways
I think that’s it! 🙂