Text Features
Titles/Subtitles
Visuals
Text
Miscellaneous
100
Helps students understand non-fiction text.
What is a text feature?
100
Tells the reader the topic/main idea of the text.
What is a Title?
100
Gives information in a visual way.
What are 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 a timeline?
200
Textbooks, magazine articles, newspapers, reports, web pages, and other nonfiction texts.
Where are text features found?
200
Divides the text into sections.
What is subheading?
200
Explains what is shown in a picture or illustration.
What is a 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 a picture?
300
Used to help locate information in the book and see how everything is organized.
What is a 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 an index?
400
Helps the reader focus so he/she can make connections between what they already know and the text.
What is title?
400
Makes the text bigger and darker so it stands out.
What is Bold?
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 a Glossary?
500
The main idea of a newspaper article titled "Bank robbery suspect arrested."
What is a bank robber?
500
Organizes 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?
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