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Authors use this type of print to signal important information or new words. These words appear dark and thicker than normal.
What are bold words?
Authors use this type of print to signal important words, new ideas, or foreign words. These words are slanted.
What are italic words?
This text feature helps organize information in a list. It uses dots.
What are bullet points?
This text feature helps you understand where something is located in the world.
What are maps?
This is what we are learning about right now.
What are text features?
This text feature is a short piece of text that always appears on the side.
What is a side bar (or fact box)?
This text feature shows what something looks like and it's drawn by an illustrator.
What is an illustration?
This text feature tells the definition of bold words in the text.
What is a glossary?
This text feature shows what something looks like. It's taken with a camera.
What is a photograph?
This text feature explains what a photograph or illustration is about.
What is a caption?
This print has a portion of text that has been made a certain color to emphasize an important idea, word or point.
What are highlighted words?
This text feature tells the names of chapters and what pages each chapter is found on.
What is the Table of Contents?
This text feature organizes facts and numbers so they're easier to read.
What are tables and graphs?
This text feature tells the name of certain parts of a photograph or illustration.
What are labels?
This text feature shows what something looks like. It is drawn by an illustrator.
What is an illustration?
This text feature is inside of a book. It tells the title and the publisher information.
What is a title page?
This text feature has an alphabetical list of names or subjects and it tells where they are in the book. This is typically at the end of a book!
What is an index?
This text feature provides an order of when things happened.
What is a timeline?
What is a heading?
This text feature is an alphabetical listing of items covered in a book along with the page numbers (for those items).
What is an index?
This text feature tells the definition or meaning of bold words in a text.
This text feature tells the name of certain parts of a photograph or illustration.
What are labels?
This text feature organizes facts and numbers so they're easier to read.
What are tables and graphs?
This text feature tells the name of chapters and what pages the chapters can be found on.
What is the Table of Contents?
This text feature divides text into sections and tells what those sections are about.
What is a heading?