3rd Grade Text Features

Front

What are illustrations?

Back

a drawing showing what something looks like

Front

What is the purpose of text features?

Back

To help the reader better understand the text.

Front

Which text feature is a list at the beginning of the book that tells you the chapters and page numbers?

Back

Table of Contents

Front

When a word is bold, underlined, or written in italics, the author wants the reader to know that that word is _____________.

Back

important

Front

Why might an author include a map in an informational text?

Back

To show the reader where a country is located.

Front

What is the purpose of the photograph in this text?

Back

To show the reader what the animal looks like.

Front

What information could a reader learn about a text from the title?

Back

What the text will mainly be about.

Front

What do we call words near a picture or photograph that help readers better understand it?

Back

captions

Front

What TWO text features can you see? Options: illustration and map, glossary and bold word, photograph and caption, caption and heading

Back

photograph and caption

Front

What text feature can an author use to make specific words stand out to a reader?

Back

bold words