Parts of Nonfiction Books
What is found in the beginning of a non-fiction book?
What is the Table of Contents?
Where would you find the index?
What is the back of the book
I am a type of print that looks darker than the rest.
What is bold.
I help the reader by identifying a picture or photograph and its parts.
What is a label?
Why are photographs/pictures important in non-fiction text.
Photographs/pictures are important in non-fiction text because they help the reader understand exactly what something looks like.
I am found in the back of the book and sometimes thought of as a dictionary.
What is the glossary?
In non-fiction books, what words do you usually see in different types of print?
Vocabulary words and key points.
What type of words are usually highlighted in nonfiction text?
Key words, vocabulary, headings, subheadings
Besides photographs, what other text features might you see labels on?
Labels might be found on maps and diagrams.
What should most photographs or pictures have?
What is a caption?
What is the purpose of the table of contents?
The purpose of the table of contents is to help the reader find key topics in the book in the order that they come.
Name three text features.
What are diagrams, charts, tables, titles, subheadings, index, glossary, table of contents, cross sections, maps
I am a type of print that is shaped differently, but not highlighted.
What is italic print?
I divide text into sections and tell the main idea of those sections.
What is a heading or subheading?
How can the table of contents and the index help you when you are looking up specific information?
When looking up specific information, you can look at the table of contents to find key topics for each chapter. You can use the index to find the exact page number that the information is on.
Give some examples for when you might use a chart or table to help you understand important information?
I might use a calendar to help me keep track of important events/dates. Information for a science project might be kept on a table or chart. These are just a few examples. Accept any reasonable answers.
What are the different types of print?
The different types of print are bold print, italics, all caps, or larger print.
I help the reader understand important information by listing the meanings of important words in the text.
What is a glossary?
I appear as text usually inside a box and relate to the words or pictures on the page?
What is a side bar?
Text features adds to another reading skill we learned. What is this skill?
What is text structure?
What information does a chart or table contain?
What is data?
I help the reader understand what they are about to read and what the main idea of the article is.
What is headings?
I am a drawing that shows or explains something.
What is a diagram?
I help teach the reader information visually.
What is a photograph, graphic or illustration?