Text Features
Help students understand non-fiction text.
What is text feature?
Tells the reader the topic/main idea of the text.
What is Title?
Give information in a visual way.
What is photographs and illustrations.
The style and color of the _______ sends the reader signals about how to read the content.
What is text?
Shows important events in the order that they happened. Usually in a line with indicators.
What is timeline?
textbooks, magazine articles, newspapers, reports, web pages, and other nonfiction texts.
What is places text features are found?
Divides the text into sections.
What is subheading?
Explains what is shown in a picture or illustration.
What is caption?
Three ways to change text to make it more noticeable.
What is bold, color, italics, capitalization, underlining
Shows you exactly what something looks like.
What is picture?
Used to help locate information in the book and see how everything is organized.
What is table of contents?
Helps the reader to locate information in the text by telling them where to look.
What is Subheadings?
Drawings that show the basic shape of the land and other geographical, political, or historical features.
What is a map?
slanted writing
What is italics?
Helps readers understand by creating interest or emphasizing information. Located in a section separate from the text.
What is textbox or sidebar?
Is an alphabetical listing of the key names, terms, events, and topics with page numbers.
What is index?
Helps the reader focus so he/she can make connections between what they already know and the text.
What is title?
A drawing that shows or explains how something works.
What is a diagram?
Change this to make information stand out.
What is color?
Author uses types of these to grab the the readers attention. (makes the reading more interesting)
What is figurative language?
A list of key terms and definitions in alphabetical order.
What is Glossary?
The main idea of a newspaper article titled "Bank robbery suspect arrested."
What is a bank robber?
Organize large amounts of information in a small space.
What is a table or chart?
Make text slightly bigger and darker so that it stands out.
What is bold?
What is the word that means to tell things in the order that they happened. (NOT using a line with indicators)
What is chronological order?