Text Fetures

Samantha wants to compare the

number of residents in several towns

in her area. She has gathered the

population data. What should

Samantha create to best display this

data?

• Font styles

• Index

• Charts & graphs

• Captions

2. Which text feature is demonstrated

below?

Continents

There are seven large land masses on earth

which are referred to as continents. The

seven continents are Africa, Antarctica,

Asia, Australia, Europe, North American and

South America.

Africa

Africa is the second largest, and the second

most populated content. It is surrounded

by the ocean and divided nearly in half by

the equator.

• Headings and subheadings

• caption

• title

• italics

A man is assembling a cabinet for his

TV. He is consulting a drawing of the

cabinet that names each part and

shows, with arrows, how the parts go

together. What is the man using?

• Headings and subheadings

• glossary

• Table of Contents

• Diagram

A student is reviewing two pages of

photos in her social studies textbook.

She believes they were taken during

the Second World War, but doesn’t

know where. What text feature will

provide the information she is

missing?

• Bold Text

• Captions

• Index

• Charts & Graphs

Lisa is doing a report on John Adams.

As she chooses her resources in the

library, what text feature will help her

quickly find out if a book includes

information on John Adams?

• Index

• Glossary

• Headings and Subheadings

• Italics

Jeremy is choosing a cookbook to

borrow from the library. He is most

interested in making soups and

desserts. What text feature of the

cookbooks should he consult to see if

they have chapters on those two

topics?

• Glossary

• Caption

• Table of Contents

• Title

Which text feature is demonstrated

in the sentence below?

An anthropologist studies civilizations

and how people build communities to

live and work in.

• Title

• glossary

• Font Style

  (Ex: italics, bold)

• Heading

This text feature is an alphabetical

list of important terms from a text,

with their definitions. It is usually

found at the end of the book or

text.

• Table of Contents

• Glossary

• Index

• Side Bar

A shorter piece of text, separated by a box that gives extra information about the information included within an article. It also gives interesting

facts or extra

information about a

topic

• Index

• Time Line

• Glossary

• Side Bar

What type of text feature is a chronological arrangement of events in the order of their occurrence?

• glossary

• timeline

• map

• side bar