Fiction or Nonfiction
Types of Print
Features
Features 2
Feature 3
100

A made up story about friends hunting for treasure.

What is fiction.

100

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

What is to underline?

100

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

What is a map?

100

Picture that shows us exactly what something looks like. Taken with a camera.

What is a photograph?

100

A picture or diagram that shows the parts or layers of an object on the inside

What is a cutaway?

200

A biography about the life of Sacagawea.

What is nonfiction.

200

When a word or phrase has darker and thicker font.

What is bold?

200

A drawing that shows specific parts of an object.  It uses labels.

What is a diagram?

200

Features that helps you identify parts of a picture or diagram.

What are labels?

200

Feature that lists important dates in chronological order.

What is a timeline?

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 shades to make a word stand out.

What is using color?

300

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

What is a glossary?

300

Words or sentences under a picture that tell you about about the picture.

What are captions?

300

Feature that organizes information into columns and additional ways to make it easier to understand.

What is a chart or a graph?

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 lists the titles of the sections and the pages on which they begin.

What is the table of contents?

400

A title at the head of a page or section

What is a heading?

400

A symbol used to make a list

What are bullets?

500

An article in a newspaper giving the results of the Cowboys game.

What is nonfiction.

500

When a word or phrase has a strip of color over the text.

What is highlighted text?

500

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

What is the index?

500

Important words that are often written in bold, italics, or color. 

What are keywords?

500

The words at the top of a dictionary page that let you know which words appear on that page (the first and last words on the page)

What are guide words?