Create a graphic organizer that compares/contrasts features of content-area textbooks with basal reading series texts. Include at least three ways that content-area texts contrast with basal reading series text.

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Answers will vary, but types of graphic organizers may include a Venn diagram or a semantic feature analysis. Following is a list of ways the texts contrast with one another.
Content texts:often use an expository writing styleorganizational patterns with headingsheavy concentration of facts and information needed in order to understand later informationspecial and technical vocabularyMany graphic aidsBasal reading series:often use a narrative writing stylepredictable story patternsselections are often discrete entities that do not have a heavy load of factslimited special or technical vocabularyfewer graphic aids

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