Name that Text Feature
Name More Text Features
Misc.
Functional Text
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100
What is an illustration or picture of a geographic location that might include rivers, lakes, mountains, cities, states or countries.
What is a map?
100
Slanted text that identifies new or important words.
What is Italic Print?
100
It is a picture made with a camera that shows how things look in real life.
What is a photograph?
100
Usually list ingredients.
What is a recipe?
100
What text feature would you use to label the parts of a frog?
What is a diagram?
200
A hand drawn picture that helps the reader visualize the text.
What is an illustration.
200
A drawing that shows the parts of something.
What is a Diagram?
200
This gives the heading and beginning page of each section of the book.
What is Table of Contents?
200
It tries to get the reader to purchase or buy something.
What is an advertisement?
200

If you drew the playground at OBES using colored pencils, what text feature would you have created?

What is an illustration?

300
This list words alphabetically and often gives the page numbers where the words occur in the text.
What is n index?
300
This alphabetically list new or important words and tells what they mean.
What is a Glossary?
300
A Venn diagram is one of these
What is a Graphic Organizer?
300
This gives information to the reader about an upcoming event.
What is a flyer?
300

You just got a new camera for your birthday and you want to take a picture of Carlos for the yearbook. What text feature is this called?

What is a photograph?

400
It calls attention to new and important words.
What is Boldface?
400
It shows information in a visual way so that it can be understood by readers.
What is a graph?
400
A miniature dictionary in the back of your textbook.
What is a glossary?
400

This tells the reader how to do something step by step. For example, putting together a bookshelf from IKEA.

What are directions?

400
Text features are only used in this main genre or type.
What is non fiction?
500
These are the words next to a picture that explain what it is or is about.
What is a caption.
500
This tells the reader what the section of reading is about.
What is a heading?
500
Located in the back of the book in alphabetical order to help the reader find works in the textbook.
What is an index?
500
A recipe
What is something that has ingredients and tells you step by step on how to make something. It is usually food.
500

Carlos wants you to draw all the parks that are in Lakeridge. You need to draw the parks to show their geographic location in relation to OBES. What text feature will you use. (Hint: not an illustration.)

What is a map?

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