Text Features
Titles/Subtitles
Visuals
Text
Miscellaneous
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 wehre 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
Helps readers understand by creating interest or emphasizing information. Located in a section separate from the text.
What is textbox?
400
Is an alphabetical listing of the key names, terms, events, and topics with page numbers.
What is index?
400
Helps the reader focus so he/she can make connections between what they already know and the text.
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
Help students understand non-fiction text.
What is text feature?
500
Tells the reader the topic/main idea of the text.
What is Title?
500
Give information in a visual way.
What is photographs and illustrations.
500
The style and color of the _______ sends the reader signals about how to read the content.
What is text?
500
Shows important events in the order that they happened.
What is timeline.
500
A list of key terms and definitions in alphabetical order.
What is Glossary?
500
The main idea of a newspaper article titled "Bank robbery suspect arrested."
What is a bank robber?
500

Organize large amounts of information in a small space.

What is a table?

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?
750
textbooks, magazine articles, newspapers, reports, web pages, and other nonfiction texts.
What is places text features are found?
750
Divides the text into sections.
What is subheading?
750
Explains what is shown in a picture or illustration.
What is caption?
750
Three ways to change text to make it more noticeable.
What is bold, color, italics, capitalization, underlining
750
Shows you exactly what something looks like.
What is picture?
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