Text Features
What feature explains what is shown in a photograph or illustration and gives more information?
A Caption
This structure tells the order of events or the steps in a process and helps the reader understand a process clearly, one part at a time.
Sequence
A passage explains how rain causes rivers to rise and flooding to happen. Which text structure is being used?
Cause and Effect
Which text feature in the beginning of a book helps a reader quickly find the page number for a chapter about weather?
Table of Contents
What feature is similar to a title but for a specific part of the text?
Heading
What is a list of sections or chapters in the order they appear with page numbers?
Table of Contents
This tells about a person, place, or thing using details about how it looks, feels, smells, or sounds, and sometimes gives examples too.
Description
A paragraph tells about a lost dog and then explains how the family finds it. What text structure is this?
Problem and Solution
A reader wants to know what the word "habitat" means. Which text feature should they use?
Glossary
What feature shows where places are and how to get from one place to another?
Map
What feature is a list of specific topics and their page number in the back of a book?
Index
This describes a problem, something that isn't working or needs change, and explains how it was or can be solved.
Problem/Solution
An author describes penguins by telling about their feathers, food, and where they live. Which structure is used?
Description
Which text feature explains what is happening in a picture?
Caption
What is a list of important words and their definitions in ABC order found in the back of a book?
A glossary
What feature shows events in order from past to present?
Timeline
This structure helps the reader understand what happened and why. It shows how one thing leads to another.
Cause and Effect
A text explains how butterflies grow from eggs to adults, step by step. What structure does this show?
Sequence
Which text feature helps you understand where something is located, or how to get from one place to another?
Map
What feature show what something looks like, how it works, or how parts fit together?
A diagram
What feature is a smaller heading that breaks the text up into more parts?
Subheading
This helps the reader understand how two or more topics are connected, but not exactly the same, by showing similarities and differences.
Compare and Contrast
A passage explains how cats and dogs are alike and different. Which text structure is being used?
Compare and Contrast
Which text feature helps important words or information stand out to the reader?
Bold or italicized words