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NF Text Features
100
The meaning of a word.
What is a definition?
100
What is a word with a similar meaning as another word?
What is a synonym?
100
Use this resource to find quick facts.
What is an almanac?
100
A book of maps.
What is an atlas?
100
The mini-dictionary at the back of a book.
What is a glossary?
200
great - grow are examples of these.
What are guide words?
200
Synonyms are sometimes found in a dictionary but are always found in this.
What is a thesaurus?
200
An almanac is published annually, which also means this.
What is published every year.
200
An atlas can show maps of states, oceans, space and, most commonly, these.
What are countries?
200
Information under a illustration or photograph.
What is a caption?
300
The parts that a word can be divided into are called these.
What is a syllable?
300
Good writers use a thesaurus to improve this.
What is their writing/vocubulary/word choice?
300
Almanacs frequently contain pie, bar, or line of these.
What are types of charts/graph?
300
The countries in atlases are usually organized by these.
What are continents?
300
The resource in the front of the book that tells you where chapters begin.
What is a table of contents?
400
A noun, verb, adjective or adverb.
What is an example of a part of speech?
400
Make sure you chose a synonym that is the same what as the word you are replacing.
What is part of speech/tense?
400
Almanacs can be used to find the population, area, and language spoken of these.
What are countries?
400
There are two types of maps in an atlas. One is a political map. The second type is this.
What is a physical map?
400
The year the book or resource was published.
What is the copyright date?
500
The entry word.
What is the word you are looking up called?
500
In Greek, thesaurus means this.
What is storehouse or treasure house?
500
The information in almanacs are organized by these.
What is by topic?
500
Use this nonfiction text feature to look up a particular country or city in an atlas.
What is a index?
500
A citation contains five pieces of information. Name them.
What are author's name, place of publication, publisher, copyright date, and title of book.