Fiction or Nonfiction?
Text Features
Text Features 2
Text Features 3
Vocabulary
100

The Three Little Pigs

Fiction

100

Lets reader know what the book is going to be about

summary

100

Words that identify different parts of a diagram or picture

label

100

drawings that help the reader understand the text

illustrations

100

to leave and not return

abandon

200

A book written about the life of Rosa Parks

Non-fiction

200

Tells the reader the different chapters or sections in the book and the pages where each chapter or section begins.

table of contents
200

words or sentences that describe what a diagram or picture is showing

caption

200

The first thing you read when looking at a book or article. It tells you what the book or article is going to be about.

Title

200

comfortable, warm, and cozy

snug
300

Mr. Lemoncello's Library

Fiction
300

a list of topics related to the subject of a book. The numbers beside the topic tells the reader where information about the topic will appear in the book.

index
300

an image of something that helps the reader to understand what the author is talking about

photograph

300
Along with the title, tells the reader what the article or book is going to be about. Sometimes they are included throughout the article.

Sub-title or sub-heading

300

to push or pull hard

strain

400

"Hop to It: Fancy Footwork"

Nonfiction

400

A list of words the author thinks readers might need to know to understand a book.

glossary
400

words that appear in the glossary and sometimes appear in the text in colored print or in slanted type.

keywords

400

Gives information about a specific place or location mentioned in the text

map

400

to tell someone what you think he or she should do

advise

500

An autobiography

Nonfiction

500

A special kind of picture that shows the different parts of something

diagram

500

provide additional information about a topic, sorted into boxes

text boxes

500

Shows the sequence (order) that events happened in

timeline

500
doing what you set out to do, or doing something well.

successful