Publishers use these to help students understand non-fiction text.
What is text feature?
100
This is the name of a book.
What is a title?
100
This type of text is slanted.
What is italics?
100
This feature has collected data that is shown in a visual way.
What is a table / chart / graph?
100
This feature shows important events in the order that they happened.
What is timeline?
200
This feature is in the back of a book and tells what pages topics can be found in that book in alphabetical order.
What is an Index?
200
This feature divides (or chunks) the text into smaller sections.
What is a subheading?
200
This explains what is shown in a picture or illustration.
What is caption?
200
These are two of the ways publishers use to make text more noticeable.
What is bold and italics? Also acceptable are colors, capitalization, underlining
200
This feature shows you exactly what something looks like.
What is picture or photograph?
300
Publishers add this to the front of a book to help locate chapters in the book and see how the book is organized.
What is Table of Contents?
300
Publishers usually put Headings and Subheadings in this type of print.
What is bold print?
300
I want information about important dates in the history of the United States but don't want to read about it in a lot of text. What kind of feature would show me this history in a visual way?
What is a Timeline?
300
If publishers want to show what a Tyrannosaurus Rex looked like, they would use this type of text feature.
What is an illustration?
300
These are sentences placed near a picture to give the reader information about the picture.
What is a caption?
400
I only have time to read one chapter of a book and I want to choose the one that is most interesting to me. Which text feature will help me?
What is the Table of Contents?
400
This text feature explains what is happening in a photo or image.
What is a caption?
400
This is a drawing that shows or explains how something works.
What is a diagram?
400
I've never heard of this word before. I wonder what it means? I could look this word up in this text feature.
What is a glossary?
400
Print that is made darker and thicker than the rest because that word is important is called this.
What is bold print?
500
This is a list of key terms and definitions in alphabetical order.
What is Glossary?
500
This feature tells the reader the topic or main idea of that section of text.
What is a heading?
500
This text features visually organizes large amounts of information in a small space.
What is a table/chart/graph?
500
This feature has more information about the topic but is separated from the main text and is usually on the side of the page.
What is a text box / side bar?
500
This text feature shows where something is located in the world.