Text Features Vocabulary

Front

Why do authors include text features?

Back

Authors include text features to help the reader better understand what they have read.

Front

A list of key words in alphabetical order located in the back of the book.

Back

glossary

Front

What do readers use to help locate information in the book and see how everything is organized?

Back

table of contents

Front

The page inside a book that tells the title and publisher information.

Back

title page

Front

An author can use titles to:

Back

show the reader the controlling idea

Front

An author would use a diagram to:

• show trends in information
• explain steps, how objects are made, parts of a larger item
• explain a photo
• show the reader a shape of a country

Back

explain steps, how objects are made, parts of a larger item

Front

What text feature are the arrows pointing at? Options: subheading, picture, title, text box

Back

text box