Describe...
bold text
To find the meaning of the word kinestetic?
What is the glossary?
I help the reader understand what they are about to read and what the main idea of the article is.
What is the title or heading?
Make text slightly bigger and darker so that it stands out.
What is bold text?
Shows important events in the order that they happened.
What is a timeline?
italics
Words that are slanted.
To find the chapter that discusses World War II in your MS History book.
What is the table of contents?
I help the reader by describing a photograph or illustration.
What is a caption?
This type of writing is slanted and sometimes used for other languages or titles of magazine articles.
What is italics?
Shows you exactly what something looks like.
What is a photograph?
a caption
A short sentence or phrase that describes a picture
To find all the page numbers that discuss linking verbs in your grammar books?
What is the index?
I help the reader by dividing an article into sections. I am smaller than a heading, but larger than the regular text.
What is a subheading?
These are dots used to make a list
Bullets
What is the word that means to tell things in the order that they happened. (not timeline!)
What is chronological order?
a glossary
Where the meaning of words from a text can be found
To find the definition of a word that was in bold print.
What is the glossary?
I am a drawing that shows or explains how something works and has labels.
What is a diagram?
Three ways the author can use different types of text.
What is italics, bold, color, all caps, underlined, large print, bulleted list?
The reason why author's use text features.
What is a way to make a non-fiction text easier for readers to understand.
A diagram
A picture with labels on it.
To find an explanation of a picture?
What is the caption?
I am a page in the book that tells the title of the book, the author, and more information about when and where the book was made.
What is a title page?
The author uses different types of text to...
Draw the reader's attention to important words or information.
This text feature organizes a large amound of data or information into a small, easy to read, area.
What is a table or chart?