Text Features
Titles/Subtitles
Visuals
Text
Miscellaneous
100
Help students understand non-fiction text.
What is text feature?
100
Tells the reader the topic/main idea of the text.
What is Title?
100
Give information in a visual way.
What is photographs and illustrations.
100
The style and color of the _______ sends the reader signals about how to read the content.
What is text?
100
Shows important events in the order that they happened.
What is timeline.
200

textbooks, magazine articles, newspapers, reports, web pages, and other nonfiction texts.

What is places text features are found?

200

Divides the text into sections.

What is heading?

200
Explains what is shown in a picture or illustration.
What is caption?
200
Three ways to change text to make it more noticeable.
What is bold, color, italics, capitalization, underlining
200
Shows you exactly what something looks like.
What is picture?
300
Used to help locate information in the book and see how everything is organized.
What is table of contents?
300

Helps the reader to locate information in the text by telling them where to look.

What is Subheadings?

300
Drawings that show the basic shape of the land and other geographical, political, or historical features.
What is a map?
300
slanted writing
What is italics?
300

A non-fiction book that is about 1 subject that you would read in school.

What is textbox?

400
Is an alphabetical listing of the key names, terms, events, and topics with page numbers.
What is index?
400

Tells the reader what the book or article is going to be about.

What is title?

400
A drawing that shows or explains how something works.
What is a diagram?
400
Change this to make information stand out.
What is color?
400
The word that means to make something stand out or make it bigger or to draw attention to something.
What is emphasize?
500
A list of key terms and definitions in alphabetical order.
What is Glossary?
500

The main idea of a newspaper article titled "Snow storm cause many car crashes"

What is a snow storm?

500

Organize large amounts of information in a small space.

What is a GRAPH?

500
Make text slightly bigger and darker so that it stands out.
What is bold?
500
What is the word that means to tell things in the order that they happened. (not timeline!)
What is chronological order?
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