Text Features 1
This helps authors organize a nonfiction text.
text features
Tells the name of the chapters and what pages the chapters can be found.
What is a table of contents?
This is found in the front of a nonfiction text and it tells what the topic will be about.
Title
Tells what pages the reader can find certain topics.
What is an index?
nonfiction
Shows what something looks like (taken with a camera).
What is a picture or photograph?
Tells the definitions of some of the words found in the text.
What is a glossary.
Shows what something looks like
picture or photograph
Divides the text into sections and explains what the sections will be about.
headings
Explains what a photograph or illustration is about.
What is a caption?
A book that is made of real facts.
nonfiction book
Tells the name of certain parts of a photograph/picture or illustration.
What is a label?
titles on a page that help the reader know what the next section will be about
Subheading
A picture of something that shows the differnt parts with labels.
diagram
this is used to help you understand 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.
BOLD PRINT
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 organize a nonfiction text
text features
This helps readers undertsand what the photograph is about.
captions
Explains what a photograph/picture or illustration is about.
What is a caption?
Gives interesting facts or extra information about a topic.
side bar
where I can find the meaning of a word that I do not know or understand.
glossary
what genre has details that are not facts and are not real
fiction