Text Features

1

100

this is in the front of the book and tells what page chapters begin on.

table of contents

200

this is print that is darker or thicker than the surrounding print

bold print

300

BONUS - choose a team. They have to name all of Santa's Reindeer to get bonus points.

Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen

400

this is a drawing or computer generated image

illustration

500

bonus - Name the villains from Home Alone to earn bonus points

Harry and Marv

2

100

this tells when things happened in a story

timeline

200

whomp whomp. -your team loses points unless you can name 3 items given throughout the 12 days of Christmas.

-200

300

which text feature would be most helpful if you need to know when someone was married?

timeline

400

This shows locations or routes

map

500

which text feature would be most helpful if you need to see where a king traveled on his way to the front lines in a war?

map

3

100

this is used to organize information that contains data/numbers

graph

200

this is text organized into a list 

bullet points

300

these are at the beginning of sections within a chapter

headings

400

this is at the back of the book. It lists important keywords or concepts and tells you what pages you can find them on

index

500

bonus! Your team gets bonus points if you can name 5 Christmas movies

+500

4

100

this is an image created by a camera

photograph

200

bonus! Your team gets bonus points if you can give 2 other names Santa Claus is known as

+200

300

whomp whomp - your team loses points unless you can sing a verse from Jingle Bells

-300

400

this is print that is slightly slanted to one side

italics

500

this shows the parts of something and usually uses labels

diagram

5

100

these are the words that describe what is being shown in a photo or illustration

caption

200

this is located in the back of the book and tells the reader what words from the mean 

glossary

300

Which text feature would be most helpful if you need to know what important words from the text mean?

glossary

400

bonus - choose a team to award points to if they can name the head elf from the movie The Santa Clause

Bernard

500

Which text feature would be most helpful while doing a research paper on the concept of gravity?

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