Text Feature Vocabulary
Visual Text Features
Where Would You Look?
Type of Text
Miscellaneous
100

a written description of a picture, photo, or illustration ; explains what the picture is.

What is a caption?
100

What helps the reader understand EXACTLY what something looks like, gives information in a visual way.

What is a photograph?
100

To find the meaning of the word kinestetic?

What is the glossary?
100

text in color; used to make the words stand out on a page.

What is colored print?
100

a set of data arranged in rows and columns.

What are Charts and Tables?

200

emphasize key points/concepts

What are bullets?
200

What is an illustration of the earth's surface?

What is a map?
200

To find the chapter that discusses World War II in your history book

What is the table of contents?
200

printed darker so that words and phrases stand out on a page, often used for titles and headings.

What is boldface type or bold print?
200

What helps readers understand the size of an object by comparing it to something more familiar?

What are comparisons?
300

set a purpose for reading, get a overview of the content, usually located at the front of a book

What is the preface/introduction?
300

What helps show important events in the order in which they occurred

What is a timeline?
300

To find supplemental/additional material about the book or document



What is the appendix?

300

What is text that is slanted so that words and phrases stand out on a page?

What is italicized type?
300

What is a covering either permanent or temporary, can be transparent?

What is an overlay?
400

an enlarged representation that helps students see small details

What is magnification?
400

What is a visual representation of a sequence of events?

What is a flow chart?
400

To find all the page numbers that discuss prepositions and conjunctions in your grammar books?

What is the index?

400

a box that has additional information about a topic that is written about in the text.

What is a text box?
400

What helps the reader gather additional or explanatory info?

What is a sidebar?
500

tools that help readers preview and understand nonfiction text

What are nonfiction text features?
500

What is a drawing intended to explain how something works; uses labels to depict each part of an object?

What is a diagram?
500

To identify a picture or a picture graph and/or its parts

What are labels?
500

helps the reader know how to say the words

What is the pronunciation guide?

500

What is located within the text, and are used to break the text into smaller sections?

What are subheadings?
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