Fiction or Nonfiction
Types of Print
Features
Features 2
Feature 3
100
The Three Little Pigs
What is fiction.
100
When the author puts a line under a specific word or phrase.
What is to underline.
100

Feature that helps us learn where things are located in the world.

What is a map.

100
Feature that shows us exactly what something looks like. Not a drawing.
What is a photograph.
100
Feature that occurs on either the side or in a box to give you more information.
What are insets and sidebars.
200
A biography about the life of President Obama
What is nonfiction.
200
When a word or phrase has darker and thicker font.
What is bold.
200
When the letters of the text are darker and thicker it's called
BOLD text
200
The number at the bottom of the page is called.
Page number
200
Feature that lists important dates in chronological order.
What is a timeline.
300
A book about bears describing different types of bears, where they live, and what food they eat.
What is nonfiction.
300
How do we know what book we are reading? We should read the...
What is the title.
300
Feature that helps the reader understand the definitions of important words.
What is a glossary.
300

Words under a picture that tell you about the picture.

What are captions.

300
The MAIN IDEA is....
What the STORY is mostly ABOUT!!
400
A story about a girl who can talk to animals.
What is fiction.
400
When the words are slanted.
What is italics.
400

Feature that tells the main topics and sections of the book and what pages they are on.

What is the table of contents.

400
You might find this at the beginning of a new section, set apart from other text, and in BOLD text.
What are chapters and headings.
400
These help you NAVIGATE through a nonfiction text.
What is a nonfiction text feature.
500
An article in a newspaper giving the results of the Bruins game.
What is nonfiction.
500
A nonfiction text is true and ______________!
Factual
500
Feature that is an alphabetical listing of items covered in the book and their page numbers.
What is the index.
500
Features that helps the reader see what something looks like on the inside.
What are cutaways or cross-sections.
500
Words in BOLD text tell us...
That we can find that word in the glossary for the definition.
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