Fiction or Nonfiction
Types of Print
Features
Features 2
Text Structures
100
The Three Little Pigs
What is fiction.
100
When the author puts a line under a specific word or phrase.
What is to underline.
100
Feature that help us learn where things are located in the world.
What is a map.
100
Feature that shows us exactly what something looks like.
What is a photograph.
100

Events in your writing that use signal words such as first, second, third.

What is sequence/order

200

A biography about the life of Mrs. Morgan.

What is nonfiction.

200
When a word or phrase has darker and thicker font.
What is bold.
200

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

What is the index.

200

The way that nonfiction is organized to tell the reader about different parts or main ideas of the section.

What are chapters and headings.

200

Using adjectives and listing facts in the writing.

What is description

300
A book about bears describing different types of bears, where they live, and what food they eat.
What is nonfiction.
300

When the author uses many different hues or tints of the rainbow to make a word stand out.

What is color.

300
Feature that helps the reader understand the definitions of important words.
What is a glossary.
300
Feature that lists important dates in chronological order.
What is a timeline.
300

There is an issue and ways to solve it.

What is problem and solution

400
A story about a girl who can talk to animals.
What is fiction.
400
When the words are slanted.
What is italics.
400
Feature that tell the main ideas and what pages they are on.
What is the table of contents.
400
Feature that organizes information into columns and additional ways to make it easier to understand.
What is a chart or a graph.
400

Looking at the differences and similarities of colleges

What is compare and contrast

500

An article in a newspaper giving the results of the Steelers football game.

What is nonfiction.

500
When a word or phrase a strip of color over the text.
What is highlight.
500

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

What are captions.

500

Shows what something looks like (drawn by an artist)

What is an illustration

500

Something happened and looking for why it happened

What is cause and effect