Text Features Worksheets

All the components of a story or article that are not the main body of text are called...

• text features

• labeled diagrams

• detailed graphs

What text feature is this a picture of?

• a graph

• a timeline

• a sidebar

What are the bold words under the picture?

• a caption

• a heading

• a title

Where would you look in a non-fiction, expository text on World War II, to find when an important battle occurred?

• sidebar or heading

• text or timeline

• any or all of these places

Found at the beginning of sections in a passage- help the reader know what different sections of the text are about

• subtitles & headings

• labels

• special print

• Illustrations

BOLD print, Italics, and underlining are used to show important words in the passage

• print variations

• insert

• captions

• illustrations

Noun: short news story or graphic that elaborates on a detail in the main text and is set apart on the side or bottom

• caption

• Text Features

• sidebar

• illustrate

Found at the back of the book and provides the reader with an alphabetical listing of the ideas in the book and provides the page # to read about the topic

• Glossary

• Photographs

• Index

• Maps

Photos or pictures used to help the reader visualize something in the  passage

• Index

• photographs

• Index

• Labels

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

• Illustrations

• Glossary

• Index

• Maps