Fiction or non-fiction?
Types of Print
Features
Features 2
Features 3
100

The Three Little Pigs

FICTION!

100

Words in the text that are important and that can be bold, italics...

KEYWORDS!

100

Feature that helps us learn where things are located in the world.

A MAP!

100

Visuals found in magazines. They illustrate what the articles are about.

PHOTOGRAPHS, PICTURES, IMAGES, ILLUSTRATIONS... 

100

The page on a book that tells you what the book is about.

The TITLE PAGE!

200

A biography about a famous singer

NON-FICTION!

200

When a word or phrase has darker and thicker font.

 Bold

200

Feature that helps the reader understand the definitions of important words.

A GLOSSARY!

200

Features that helps you identify parts of a diagram.

LABELS!
200

Feature that is at the top of an article and shows what the article is about.

HEADLINE!

300

An article about bears, describing different types of bears, where they live and what they eat.

NON-FICTION!

300

When the author puts a line under a specific word or phrase.

Underline

300

The list of chapters and/or page numbers at the beginning of a book or a magazine

The table of contents

300

Words under a picture that tells you about about the picture.

A CAPTION!

300

A picture on a digital device that opens an application, a file or a website.

AN ICON!
400

A story about a little boy that can talk to animals.

FICTION!

400

When the words are slanted.

Italics

400

Feature that is an alphabetical listing of items covered in the book or magazine and their page numbers.

INDEX!

400

A symbol used to make a list.

Bullet points

400

A diagram that shows events in a chronological order

A TIMELINE!

500

An article in a newspaper, giving the results of a football game and commenting it. 

NON-FICITON

500

When a word or phrase has a strip of colour over it.

Highlight

500

Feature that helps the reader see what something looks like on the inside.

A cutaway

500

Feature that is a graphical visualisation of numbers.

CHARTS/GRAPHS!

500

A feature that shows the parts of an object

A diagram!