Text Features
Titles/Subheadings
Visuals
Text
Miscellaneous
100
What helps students understand non-fiction text?
text features
100
What tells the reader the topic/main idea of the text? (Usually in really large font)
The Title
100
Give information in a visual way.
What is photographs and illustrations.
100
The style and color of the _______ let's the reader know the word is important.
words/text
100
What is a text box?
A box off to the side, to give extra information on the topic. Might say "Fun Fact!"
200
What do textbooks, magazine articles, newspapers, reports, web pages, and other nonfiction texts all have in common?
places text features are found
200
Divides the text into smaller sections.
subheadings
200
the words that explain what is in a picture or illustration.
What is caption?
200
Give three ways to change text to make it stand out.
What is bold, color, italics, capitalization, underlining, highlight
200
What shows you exactly what something looks like, not a illustration.
a picture
300
What is in the beginning of the book and used to help locate information in the book and see how everything is organized (with page numbers).
table of contents
300
Headings usually have a bigger ______ size.
Font
300
Drawings that show the basic shape of the land and other geographical, political, or historical features.
What is a map?
300
What is italics font?
slanted writing
300
Name three text features.
table of contents, glossary, index, bold font, title, heading, subheading, picture, illustration, caption, etc
400
What text feature is an alphabetical listing of the keywords with page numbers, in the back of the book.
index
400
This helps the reader focus so he/she can make connections between what they already know and the text.
The title
400
A drawing that shows or explains how something works.
What is a diagram?
400
When you don't know a word that is in bold, you should try using _____ to figure out the meaning of the work
context clues or the glossary
400
What goes with a picture to help explain the picture?
a caption
500
What is list of key terms and definitions in alphabetical order, in the back of the book?
Glossary
500
If the title of the text is "Nature's Deadliest: The Polar Bear", what do you think the topic of the text will be?
polar bears
500
Organize large amounts of number information in a small space.
What is a table or graph or chart?
500
What is bold font?
Make text slightly bigger and darker so that it stands out.
500
Is a biography fiction or nonfiction?
nonfiction