Types of Nonfiction
Text that tells the life story of a real person but is written by someone else
What is a biography?
When the author puts a line under a specific word or phrase.
What is to underline?
Feature that helps us learn where things are located in the world.
What is a map?
Feature that shows us exactly what something looks like using a camera.
What is a photograph?
Feature that provides more information than is in the text about a topic. It could include interesting facts.
What is a text box?
A personal account of a specific period or aspect of the author’s life
What is a memoir?
When a word or phrase has darker and thicker font.
What is bold?
Feature that tells the reader the first and last words on a page.
What are guide words?
Features that helps you identify parts of a picture or diagram.
What are labels?
Feature that lists important dates in chronological order.
What is a timeline?
Factual, timely reports on current events that is typically written in an objective style.
What is a news article or newspaper?
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?
Feature that organizes information into columns and additional ways to make it easier to understand.
What is a chart or a graph?
This tells the true life story of the author.
What is an autobiography?
When the words are slanted.
What is italics?
Feature that tells the main ideas and what pages they are on.
What is the table of contents?
The feature used to tell a reader the main idea of a text.
What is a title?
Feature that shows or explains something using captions, labels, and numbered parts.
What is a diagram?
This provides detailed instructions for how to use a product or service.
What is an instruction or user manual?
When a word or phrase has 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?
Feature that helps the reader see what something looks like on the inside.
What is a cutaway?
Feature that shows what something would look like under a microscope.
What is a close-up?