Text Features
This text feature tells you what the book or article is mostly about.
Title
This nonfiction subgenre tells the true story of a real person’s life, written by someone else.
Biography
This text structure describes a problem and tells how it is solved.
Problem & Solution
If an author explains how volcanoes erupt, their purpose is this.
To Inform
Problem, issue, difficulty and solution, resolution signal this text structure.
Problem & Solution
This section at the beginning of a nonfiction book lists chapters and page numbers.
This nonfiction subgenre explains facts about science, animals, or history.
Informational Text
This text structure explains events in the order they happen.
Chronological or Sequence/Order
These facts explain and contribute to the main idea.
Supporting Details
“For example” and “such as” signal this text structure.
Description
This text feature gives the meaning of a word used in the book.
Glossary
This nonfiction subgenre tells the story of a person’s life written by that person.
Autobiography
This text structure shows how two or more things are alike and different.
This strategy helps you figure out a word’s meaning by using nearby words or sentences.
Context Clues
“Both,” “similar,” and “different” signal this text structure.
Compare & Contrast
This text feature is usually in bold and tells what a section is about.
Heading
This nonfiction subgenre explains things step by step for the reader.
How-to
This text structure gives lots of details to explain what something is like.
Description
This is the reason an author writes a nonfiction text.
Author's Purpose
“First,” “next,” and “finally” signal this text structure.
Chronological or Sequence/Order
This nonfiction text feature explains a picture or photograph.
Caption
This nonfiction subgenre shares real events in the order they happened.
Historical Nonfiction
This text structure explains why something happens and what happens because of it.
Cause & Effect
These are facts or details from the text that support an answer.
Text Evidence
“Because,” “so,” and “as a result” signal this text structure.
Cause & Effect