Text Features
This tells us what the book is about.
What is TITLE?
What are KEY WORDS?
They are words on the page that are the important words (the vocabulary words).
This explains about the photograph or picture.
What is CAPTION?
Why are there PHOTOGRAPHS or DRAWINGS on a page?
The text features provide us with additional information about the subject of the text.
This lists the titles of the chapters, and their page numbers, in the book.
What is TABLE OF CONTENTS?
Why are some words HIGHLIGHTED in the text?
Those words are the key words, or the important words, on the page.
This gives the meaning of important words in the text.
What is GLOSSARY?
Why do we use bold letters in text?
To make the text stand out.
This is the title for a section of text to tell us what the section is about.
What is HEADING?
How is an INDEX arranged?
alphabetical (A-B-C) order