Nonfiction Text Features

Words near a picture or photograph to help readers better understand it

• Caption

• Heading

• Special Print

• Glossary

Helps readers define words from the book

*hint: it's near the back of the book!

• Caption

• Title

• Graphs

• Glossary

Charts and graphs that are used to help the reader better understand what the author is saying

• Captions

• Subtitle

• Table of Contents

• Graphics

Helps the reader see exactly what something or someone looks like

• Table of contents

• Subtitle

• Photographs and Illustrations

• Index

An alphabetical list of ideas that are in the book and tells the reader what page the ideas on

*example: Native Americans - pg 15

• Photographs

• Index

• Captions

• Table of contents

Helps the reader identify a picture or a photograph and its parts

• Index

• Title

• Label

• Maps

Helps readers understand where something is in the world

• Photograph

• Maps

• Glossary

• Graphics

When a word is BOLD, ITALIC, or underlined to show importance

• Captions

• Special print

• Subtitles

• Glossary

Special headings to let the reader know what the next section of the text will be about

• Subtitles

• Captions

• Index

• Illustrations

Helps the reader identify key topics in the book in the order they are presented

*hint: where the chapter list is, towards the front of the book

• Index

• Photographs

• Subtitle

• Table of contents