Find the feature
This feature at the front of a book lists chapters and their page numbers.
Table of Contents
This feature explains what is happening in a picture.
Caption
These titles divide the text into main sections.
Headings
If you want to quickly find where “volcanoes” are discussed in a book, you use this feature.
Index
Helps you identify a picture or a photograph and/or its parts
Labels
This feature at the back of a book lists topics alphabetically and gives page numbers.
Index
This visual feature shows information using bars or lines to compare numbers
Graph
What is your English teacher's name?
Mrs. Patton
If you want to know what a bold vocabulary word means, you should check this feature.
Glossary
Shows where a new paragraph begins
Indentation
This feature gives definitions of important vocabulary words used in the text.
Glossary
This labeled drawing shows the parts of something and how it works.
Diagram
This type of text is darker or thicker to show important vocabulary.
Bold Print
This feature helps readers preview the topics in a book before they start reading.
Table of Contents
Charts and graphs help readers understand this kind of information quickly.
Data or numbers
What year was Spotsylvania Middle School built?
1972, 1969, 1954, 1980
1969
This visual text feature shows locations and geographic information.
Map
This type of print is slanted and often used to emphasize words or titles
Italics
Readers use this type of visual to understand numbers or statistics in a text.
Chart or Graph
Bold print is used to show this type of information.
Important vocabulary words
This feature often appears at the bottom of a page and gives extra information about the text.
Footnote
This visual feature organizes information into rows and columns for easy comparison.
Table
This feature highlights key information using bullet points instead of paragraphs.
Bulleted list
This feature gives credit to sources and often appears at the end of a book or article.
Bibliography or Works Cited Page
What is your librarian's name?
Mrs. Sunderman