Summary: This is a nonfiction article from National Geographic World magazine about the sport of snowshoeing. It discusses the history of snowshoeing, the equipment, and the health benefits of this sport.
Genre: Expository Writing
Expository writing is writing that informs or explains.
Story Skill: Text Features
Authors include text features to help the reader better understand what they have read. Text features provide information that may not be written in the text itself. They can be found in textbooks, articles, magazines, newspapers, reports, web pages, and other forms of non-fiction text. Examples of text features are pictures, captions, titles, introductions, subheading, maps, diagrams, bold words, etc.