Getting Started
This is another word for the name of the book.
What is the title?
These words describe a picture or illustration.
What is a caption?
This is a picture that shows the location of things or places.
What is a map?
This would help you understand what a page or section is mostly going to be about.
What is a heading?
This shows data using bars, lines, or pictures.
What is a graph?
This is what we call the person who wrote the book.
What is the author?
These words are darker and thicker than other ones to help important vocabulary stand out.
What is bold print?
This is a picture made with a camera that shows how things look in real life.
What is a photograph?
If you needed to find certain information, this feature in the back of the book would help you know what page(s) to look at.
What is the index?
This is slanted text that identifies new or important words.
What is italics?
This is the person who drew the pictures in the book.
What is the illustrator?
This feature is usually at the top of a page and tells you the topic for that page or section.
What is a heading?
This shows data in a visual way.
What is a graph?
This would help you find out when something happened.
What is a timeline?
This feature shows information using drawings.
What is an illustration?
This feature tells you the names of chapters and where to find them in a book. It's in number order.
What is the table of contents?
This text feature might have bullet points or numbers.
What is a list?
This feature contains facts or numbers organized in rows and columns.
What is a table?
These would help you understand what each part of a diagram is.
What are labels?
This is text that is set apart from the main text. It might give more information on a detail or state facts that are not part of the main idea.
What is a sidebar?
You can find this in the back of the book; it tells where to find important topics in the book. It's in alphabetical order.
What is the index?
Smaller titles under a main heading that break the text into parts are called this.
What is a subheading?
This visual shows labels pointing to parts of something, like a plant or a body.
What is a diagram?
If there are bold or italicized words in the text, this would help you understand what they mean.
What is a glossary?
This is like a mini-dictionary at the end of a book; it lists important words and their definitions.
What is a glossary?