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Text Features
Breaking up the text
Visuals
Text
Miscellaneous
100

Help readers understand non-fiction text and what each part of the text is.

What are text features?

100

Tells the reader the topic/main idea of the text as a whole. It is typically located in 3 places on/in the book.

What is the title?

100

Gives information in a visual way.  Give 2 examples.

What are photographs, illustrations, diagrams, cutaway, close-up?

100
The style and color of the _______ sends the reader signals about how to read the content.
What is text?
100

Shows important events in the order that they happened.

What is a timeline?

200

Textbooks, magazine articles, newspapers, reports, web pages, articles and other nonfiction texts are all...

What are places text features are found?

200

Divides the text into large sections.

What are headings?

200
Explains what is shown in a picture or illustration.
What is caption?
200

Three ways to change text to make it more noticeable.

What is bold, color, italics, capitalization, underlining, highlighting, enlarging?

(pick any 3)

200

Shows you exactly what something looks like, taken with a camera.

What is a photograph?

300
Used to help locate information in the book and see how everything is organized.
What is table of contents?
300

Organizes infomation in the text into smaller chunks.

What are subheadings?

300
Drawings that show the basic shape of the land and other geographical, political, or historical features.
What is a map?
300

Slanted writing.

What is italics?

300

Helps readers to know how to say a word.

What is a pronunciation guide?

400
Is an alphabetical listing of the key names, terms, events, and topics with page numbers.
What is index?
400

Located at the beginning of the book, included the title, author and publisher information.

What is the title page?

400

A drawing that shows or explains how something works with labeled parts.

What is a diagram?

400

This is done to entry words in the glossary.

What is bolded?

400

Words found at the top of a dictionary or glossary page that indicate the words that may be found on that page.

What are guide words?

500
A list of key terms and definitions in alphabetical order.
What is Glossary?
500

Contains additional information about a topic, often located off to the side of the main body of text.

What is a text box?

500

Organize large amounts of information in a small space.  Information is arranged in rows and columns of data.

What is a table?

500
Make text slightly bigger and darker so that it stands out.
What is bold?
500

Words that are used to identify parts of a diagram.

What are labels?