Text Features 1
This helps authors organise a non-fiction text.
text features
Tells the name of the chapters and what pages the chapters can be found.
Table of Contents / Contents Page
This is found in the front of a non-fiction text and it tells the reader what the topic will be about.
Title
This tells you what pages the reader can find certain topics.
Index / Contents Page
The genre that authors write that has real facts.
Non-fiction
Shows what something looks like (taken with a camera).
Photo / Photograph
Tells the definitions of some of the words found in the text.
Glossary
Shows what something looks like.
Picture / Photograph / Illustration
Divides the text into sections and explains what the sections will be about.
Headings
Explains what a photograph or illustration is about.
Caption
A book that is made of real facts.
Non-fiction book
Tells the name of certain parts of a photograph/picture or illustration.
Label
Titles on a page that help the reader know what the next section will be about.
Heading / Subheading
A picture of something that shows the different parts with labels.
Diagram
This is used to help you understand parts of a diagram.
Labels
A book that has characters and has details that are made up.
A fiction book
These words are important and they can be found in the glossary. They are shown in...
Bold
Divides the text into sections and explains what the section will be about.
Headings
Shows that a word is important.
Bold words
Authors use these to organise a nonfiction text
Text features
This helps readers understand what a photograph or diagram is about.
Captions
What does a caption do?
Explains a photo or diagram.
Gives interesting facts or extra information about a topic.
Footnote
Where I can find the meaning of a word that I do not know or understand in a non-fiction text.
Glossary
The genre that has details that are not facts and are not real.
Fiction