Nonfiction I
Help the reader identify topics throughout the book as they skim and scan.
What are Headings or Subheadings?
Help the reader understand a picture or photograph.
What are Captions?
Helps the reader define words contained in the text.
What is Glossary?
Help the reader navigate through the dictionary.
What are Guide Words?
Help the reader identify key topics in the book and the order they were presented.
What is Table of Contents?
Help the reader navigate through sections of text.
What are Subtitles?
Helps the reader by signaling the word is important and/or found in the glossary.
What is Bold or Highlighted Words?
Help the reader understand where things are in the world.
What are Maps?
Gives the reader a hint as to what the topic of the story.
What is Title?
Help the reader gather additional information or help explain something. Usually located in a box off to the side of the text.
What are Sidebars?
Help the reader emphasize the key points and concepts.
What are Bullets?
Slanted text that helps a reader understand the word is important.
What is Italics?
Real life pictures
What are photographs?
Drawings that help the reader understand exactly what something looks like.
What are Illustrations?
Help the reader summarize and compare information more quickly than in text.
What are Charts and Graphs?
Helps the reader see everything in the text listed alphabetically, with page numbers.
What is Index?
A conversation between two people where questions and answers are exchanged.
What is Interview?
Writings that tell about real people, places and events.
What is Non-Fiction?
Shows the reader the order of events that something took place, usually drawn on a line showing dates or years.
What is a Timeline?
The story of someone's life, written by someone else.
What is Biography?
The story of one's life, written by that person.
What is Autobiography?
Original, firsthand account of an event; includes diaries, journals, letters, speeches, news stories, photographs, and pieces of art.
What is Primary Source?
Nonfiction that reads like fiction but provides factual information.
What is Literary Nonfiction?
Information compiled from or based on other sources.
What is a Secondary Source?
Nonfiction that is written mainly to provide factual information.
What is Informational Nonfiction?