Textual Aids

Quarter I – Week 2
 Objective:

A. Define textual aids.

B. Name the different textual aids.
C. Familiarize with the functions of
textual aids.
What do you call the tools that
come in different forms and
their main objectives is to help
the readers have a clearer
meaning of the text
ULTETAX
Textual Aids
- Refer to non-textual elements that help readers
understand the content of the text.
- Refer to the elements that stand-out from the
main text such as titles and subtitles, bold,
italicized, and underlined texts
- Non-textual elements include illustrations,
maps, tables, graphs, and charts.
 Functions of Textual Aids
1.To direct readers’ attention to
important ideas in the text.
2.To provide more information as a
supplement to what is already
written.
 Two Types of Textual
Aids
1. Linear
2. Non-Linear Text
Day 2
Directions: Guess each visual aids

Venn Diagram
Pie Graph
Organizational Chart
Cause & Effect
Flow Chart
 Types of
Textual Aids
1.1AdvanceOrganizers
- Teachers use advance organizer to introduce
a lesson and guide learners on how to think
about it.
- This can help students understand what
they’re being taught and remember it later on.
 Examples of advance Organizers

 Expository Advance Organizers

 Narrative Advance Organizers
 Skimming
 Graphic Organizers
 1.2Expository Advance Organizer

Gives the students a broad

idea of the lesson’s purpose
before the lesson begin.
 1.3Narrative Advance Organizer

- Involve story telling

 Skimming
A teacher strategy by asking
students to skim over a reading,
focusing on highlighted
information, such as captions, or
chapter headings.
 Graphic Organizer
 They structure information visually or in
pictures.
 They’re usually one-page forms with lots
of blank areas so they’re easy for students
to skim before the lesson
 Examples of Graphic Organizers
 Persuasion Map – helps students familiarize themselves with the
process of persuasive writing.
 Sequence Chart – a tool that helps visualize the order or steps or
a time of events,
 Story Map – can be used to identify the different elements such as
characters, characters plot, themes, techniques.
 Biography Graphic Organizer – assists with understanding a
character from a novel, autobiography or movie or a historical
figure more in depth.
Examples of Graphic Organizers
 Cause & Effect – shows the causes and effects.
 Venn Diagram– visually represents a
comparison of differences and similarities
between two subjects.
 Titles
 Providing titles improves comprehension and
memorability of text.
 Bold
 Colored
 italics
 Non-Linear Illustrations
 In a linear text, a reader can make sense of the text
by reading sequentially, from beginning to the end.
 However, in a nonlinear text, the reading path is
non-linear and non-sequential; thus, the reader can
choose his own reading path.