Expository Text Features

Found under pictures, diagrams, charts or photographs to help the reader better understand the picture of diagram.

• Illustrations

• Captions

• Glossary

• Chart

Helps the readers see where the places in the passage are in relation to geographic regions of the world

• Illustrations

• Glossary

• Index

• Maps

Where would you find a caption?

• Close to a picture

• At the top of a section

• On the table of contents

• In the glossary

The purpose of graphics (such as graphs, tables, pictures, or maps) is to ____________

• Help the reader visualize important information 

• Describe what is found in a photo or illustration 

• Separate text into sections based on main ideas 

• Show information that occurs in a certain order 

A list of chapters in a book and the page numbers where each chapter starts.

• Index

• Table of Contents

• Glossary

• Framed Text (Text Box, Insert)

Expository Text Features is the  way a text is organized and refers to the different forms the author uses to organize the text.

• True

• False

This text structure helps readers create pictures in their mind about a topic

• Compare and Contrast

• Cause and Effect

• Description

• Problem / Solution

The Venn Diagram is helpful to use with this text feature...

• Problem/Solution

• Compare and Contrast
  Compare and Contrast

• Description

• Chronological

These are words, phrases, or sentences that help the reader understand a picture, photograph or illustration.

• CAPTIONS

• DIAGRAM

• TABLE OF CONTENTS

• CHART AND TABLE

It helps the reader find key topics in the text in the order they are presented.

• TABLE OF CONTENTS

• GLOSSARY

• INDEX

• DIAGRAM