Text Features 1
This text feature lists the major parts of a book along with their page numbers, outlines, the main topics or main points, and helps the reader locate information in the book and to see how its organized.
What is the Table of Contents
An alphabetical listing of the key names, terms, events and topics with page numbers.
Helps the readers find pages that contain information they are looking for.
What is an Index?
Tells the reader the topic of the text, shows the main idea of the text, what they are about to read, and helps the reader focus on a topic so they can make connections between what they already know and the text.
What is a title?
These help a reader better understand the text.
What are Text Features?
What page should you turn to if you wanted to find information about polar bear paws?
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Who Am I............4
Big Bears.............6
Powerful Paws.......10
What's For Dinner?....14
Bears In Town..........20
What is Page 10
This text feature give you information in a visual way that is pleasing to the eye.
This also helps you to understand exactly what something looks like.
What are Photographs?
A mini dictionary that is in alphabetical order and each keyword is defined and sometimes tells you how to pronounce a word.
What is a glossary?
It explains what is shown in a picture or illustration.
It also helps the reader understand information that may or may not be in the text.
What is a caption?
Where are text features found?
Any form of nonfiction text
What page should you go to if you wanted to find information about what polar bears eat?
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Who Am I........4
Big Bears.........6
Powerful Paws....10
Super Swimmers.....12
What's For Dinner.....14
What is page 14?
What is a Textbox?
Provides more information in the text about a topic.
Also includes interesting facts/important information the author wants the reader to know.
This text feature is a drawing that shows or explains something.
Helps the reader understand steps, how objects are made, or information in the text.
Has labels sometimes to show what may be on the inside of something.
What is a Diagram?
This text feature shows important events in chronological order or time order (sequential order).
Helps the reader better understand the order of events and how one event may lead to another.
What text feature would you use if you wanted to learn the definition of the "bubonic plague"?
A. A Chart
B. The Title
C. The Glossary
D. The Caption
C. The Glossary
What information would you find on page 13?
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Who Am I.................4
Big Bears.................6
Powerful Paws..........10
Super Swimmers........12
What's For Dinner?......14
What is Super Swimmers?
This text feature are drawings that show the basic shape of the land, and other geographical, political, or historical features.
What are Maps?
This text feature organizes large amounts of information in small spaces.
It also presents all kinds of data, from numbers and amounts, to calendars and menus.
Helps the reader also compare information in the text
What is Tables?
This text feature will sometimes be in a sentence on the page. It makes one word stand out from the rest.
What is Bold Print?
What text feature would you use if you wanted to find out what the meaning was of a word in the text you were reading?
What is a Glossary?
This text feature divides the text into sections and is printed in large or bold type to make them stand out. It also helps the reader to locate information in the text by telling them where to look.
Subheadings