Complete Page
Within Text
Graphic Features
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Name the text feature that shows the title, author, illustrator, publisher, and year of publication

Title Page

100

This feature is similar to a title. It tells the reader what the section of the text will be about.

Heading

100

This is an image captured by a camera.

Photograph

100

This is a digital link that takes you to a website.

Hyperlink

100

This feature helps you understand what is shown on a map.

Map Key

200

Which text feature shows the name of each chapter and the page number where each chapter begins?

Table of Contents

200

This type of heading tells what a particular topic in a section of text will be about. 

Subheading

200

This is an image drawn by hand.

Illustration

200

This is additional, interesting information that the author wants the reader to know. The information is usually in a box.

Text Box

200

These images represent data or information. The data can be represented by lines, bars, or pie slices.

Charts and Graphs

300

This text features shows important information listed in alphabetical order. It is found at the back of a book.

Index

300

These words are important vocabulary words that the author wants you to know. They are darker than the rest of the words on the page.

Bold Words or Bold Print
300

This is a sentence or group of sentences beneath a picture that explains the picture.

Caption

300

This image allows a reader to see all of the details of an object.

Close up

300

This text feature shows data that has been arranged in rows and columns.

Table

400

This feature contains important vocabulary words listed in alphabetical order, with their definitions

Glossary

400

These words slant to the right. They are important words the author wants you to know.

Italics

400

This is an image that shows parts of an object and has labels that explains each part.

Diagram
400

This is an image that shows the inside of an object.

Cutaway

400
How do text features help us?

They help us to better understand text; what we are reading.

500

These words let the reader know which word is the first and which word is the last on a page. They help a person find words in a dictionary.

Guide Words

500

This text features indicates a list.

Bullet Points

500

These are words used on a diagram.

Labels

500

This shows the location of a place or an object.

Map

500

This text feature shows important events in the order that they happened.

Timeline

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