Nonfiction Text Features

If there were words under a picture, telling you more about it, that would be called a...

• Index

• Heading

• Chart

• Caption

What appears at the bottom of a text that gives a little more information, perhaps noted by a little number or asterisk?

• diagram

• title

• footnote

• heading

Which description best matches the Table of Contents?

• found at the front of the book; includes chapter titles and their beginning page #s

• organized pictoral representation of data

• words, usually found underneath a picture that tell more information about it

• found at the back of the book; includes entry words and their meanings

Which description best matches Glossary?

• an illustration drawn by the author

• found at the front of the book; includes chapter titles and their beginning page #s

• includes important words from the text and their meanings

• a picture representation, including a key that shows where something is located in the world

A Side Bar or Fact Box gives interesting facts or extra information about a topic.

• True

• False

What is at the top of the page or section and tells what the text will be about?

• glossary

• graph

• heading

This nonfiction text feature tells the names of the chapters and what page the chapters can be found.

• Table of Contents

• Glossary

• Index

This nonfiction text feature tells what page the reader can find certain topics. The topics are listed in alphabetical order.

• Index

• Heading

• Table of Contents

In a nonfiction book, where can you find what the bold print words mean?

• index

• glossary

• on the cover

This shows information as a picture.

• graph

• table of contents

• map