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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 is smaller than a heading and more specific.
What is a subheading?
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 feature tells you the first and last word on a glossary page
What are guide words?
This text feature that takes you to another location such as a website.
What is a hyperlink?
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?
This text feature divides the text into sections and tells what those sections will be about.
What is a heading?
This text feature shows the inside of something.
What is a cutaway?
This text feature known as a time line can be organized in either top to bottom or left to right. These directions are known as ?
What is vertical and horizontal?
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 allows the reader to see intricate details of an object
What is close up?
This text feature shows an image and the parts of something.
What is a diagram?