Text Features
This text feature shows information using rows and columns.
What is a table?
This text feature explains events in the order they happen.
What is chronological order?
Headings help readers understand this before reading a section.
What is the main idea?
This visual text shows information using pictures or drawings.
What is an illustration?
Author's include text features to help readers do this.
What is to understand the text better?
This text feature explains a word or phrase, usually found at the bottom of a page.
What is a footnote?
This structure explains similarities and differences between two ideas.
What is compare and contrast?
A heading can help readers predict this about a paragraph.
What is to predict the content?
This feature explains what is happening in a photograph or diagram.
What is a caption?
This is one reason an author might include a diagram.
What is to explain information?
This text feature uses bold or larger text to tell the reader what a section will be about.
What is a heading?
This structure explains a problem and then gives a solution.
What is problem and solution?
This is a way headings help information.
What is to organize information?
Charts and graphs mainly help readers understand this type of information.
What is data or statistics?
Text features are especially important in this type of text.
What is informational text?
This text feature helps readers quickly locate information using page numbers.
What is a table of contents?
This structure explains why something happened and what happened as a result.
What is cause and effect?
This part of a text usually introduces the main idea of a section.
What is an introductory paragraph?
This visual feature shows how parts fit together.
What is a diagram?
This is how text features help readers understand the complex information.
What is breaking down information?
This text feature provides extra facts or visuals to support the main text.
What is a caption or a sidebar?
This structure groups things into categories.
What is classification?
Authors use headings to break information into these manageable parts.
What are sections?
Visuals support understanding by doing this for the reader.
What is clarifying information?
An author chooses specific sections and features to achieve this goal.
What is author's purpose?