Contents and Index

It's important for your readers to understand features of informational text such as index and table of contents, so give them this visual activity to get started. They read a brief explanation of informational text, then look at an example about pets. They read the table of contents and record pages on which different animals can be found. Then, they look at the same book's index and determine where they might find information about specific pets. They also observe that the index is in alphabetical order.