Fiction or Nonfiction
The Three Little Pigs
Fiction
When the author puts a line under a specific word or phrase.
What is to underline?
Feature that help us learn where things are located in the world.
What is a map?
Feature that shows us exactly what something looks like.
What is a photograph?
These name specific parts of a diagram.
What are labels?
A biography about the life of President Obama
nonfiction.
When a word or phrase has darker and thicker font.
What is bold?
This feature is a title at the top of a page or section that helps the reader identify the main idea for that section.
What is a heading?
Features that helps you identify parts of a picture or diagram.
What are labels?
This features lists important dates in order.
What is a timeline?
A book about bears describing different types of bears, where they live, and what food they eat.
nonfiction
When the author uses many different shades to make a word stand out.
What is using color?
Feature that helps the reader understand the definitions of important words.
What is a glossary?
Words under a picture that tells you about about the picture.
What are captions?
This feature helps you find information by topic and tells you what page(s) you can find that information.
What is a graph or chart?
A story about a girl who can talk to animals.
fiction
When the words are slanted.
What is italics?
This feature is at the beginning of the book and tells the reader the chapter titles and where they are located.
What is the Table of Contents?
This is a drawing that shows what something looks like.
What is an illustration?
This is a box that surrounds words to give extra information.
What is a text box?
An article in a newspaper giving the results of the Bruins game.
nonfiction
When a word or phrase a strip of color over the text.
What is highlight?
Feature that is an alphabetical listing of items covered in the book and their page numbers.
What is the index?
These are used when listing ideas or important ideas. They help organize ideas.
What are bullet points?
These are headings given to smaller sections in the text.
What are subheadings?