Nonfiction Text Features

Nonfiction Text Features

100

This type of print shows me a word is important

1. bold print

2. caption

3. photograph

1. Bold print

200

Where I find a glossary in a nonfiction book.

1. The front

2. The back 

3. The middle

2. The back

300

A real picture, not a drawing.

Photograph

400

Organizes and helps compare information in a visual way. Usually compares two or more pieces of information using numbers. 

chart/graph/table

500

Create a caption for this photograph:

Two men making the world's largest pizza.

Nonfiction Text Features 2

100

The page that shows where different chapters start.

1. Index

2. Table of contents

3. Glossary

2. Table of contents

200

This feature shows an area of land or sea and describes physical features, cities, roads, etc.

1. a map

2. labels

3. fact box

1. A map

300

A word, phrase, or sentence at the beginning of a written passage that explains what it's about.

subtitle

400

Where you should look to locate the page numbers of different topics in the back of a nonfiction text.

Index

500

What text features do you see on this page? ( Hint: There are 5 different features.)

Title

Heading 

Map

Photograph

Caption

Nonfiction Text Features 3

100

A word or words that point to a part of a picture and describes what is seen.

1. Diagram

2. Caption

3. A label 

3. A label

200

A simple drawing using lines to explain where something is or how something works

1. Photograph

2. Illustration

3. Diagram

3. A diagram

300

The feature shows you an alphabetical list of definitions of words from the text that are typically bolded.

Glossary

400

This feature is a visual representation of events in history displayed in chronological order.

 A timeline

500

What nonfiction text features do you see here? Hint: there are 5 (ignore the arrows)

Title

Subtitle

Graph

Timeline

Map