Text Features

The elements of a text designed to help locate, understand, and organize information.

• Text Feautures

• Evidence

• Thesis Statement

• Counterclaim

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

Name the print in the red circle:

• bold

• important

• italics

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

What are the bold words under the picture?

• caption

• heading

• title

Usually found at the end of a passage or the back of the book to help the reader understand the meaning of important words.

• Illustrations

• Captions

• Glossary

• Chart

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

Choose the correct vocabulary word-  helps the reader learn about other important ideas that go along with the topic or main idea of a passage.

• Illustrations

• Captions

• Glossary

• Chart

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