Fiction or Nonfiction
"The Three Little Pigs" is an example of this type of writing.
What is fiction?
When the author puts a line under a specific word or phrase.
What is to underline?
A feature that helps us find where something is located in the world.
What is a map?
A feature that shows us exactly what something looks like.
What is a photograph?
Feature that occurs in a box and gives the reader more details.
What is a text box?
A biography about the life of President Obama is an example of this type of writing.
What is nonfiction? (also accept narrative nonfiction)
When a word or phrase has darker and thicker font.
What is bold?
A feature that tells the reader how to say the word correctly.
What is a pronunciation guide?
Features that helps you identify parts of a picture or diagram.
What are labels?
Feature that lists important dates in chronological order.
What is a timeline?
A book about bears describing different types of bears, where they live, and what food they eat.
What is nonfiction? (also accept expository nonfiction)
When the author uses many different shades to make a word stand out.
What is using color?
A feature that helps the reader understand the meaning of important words.
What is a glossary?
Words under a picture that tell you about about the picture.
What are captions?
A feature that shows data in a visual way (hint: think of ways numbers/data are represented visually in math)
What is a chart or a graph?
A story about a girl who can talk to animals.
What is fiction?
When the words are slanted.
What is italics?
A feature that helps the reader know where to find major topics in the book.
What is the table of contents?
The big bold words at the top of a section that tell the reader what that section will be about.
What are headings?
A three word term used to describe what we are studying.
What is a nonfiction text feature?
An article in a newspaper giving the results of the Longhorns football game.
What is nonfiction?
When a word or phrase has a strip of color over the text.
What is highlight?
A feature that is an alphabetical listing of topics covered in the book along with their page numbers.
What is the index?
Features that helps the reader see what something looks like on the inside.
What are cutaways or cross-sections? (also accept diagram)
TOC is an abbreviation for this nonfiction text feature.
What is a Table of Contents?