Text features

Why use text features?

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

2. Text features provide information that may not be written in the text itself.

3. Text features can be found in textbooks, magazine articles, newspapers, reports, web pages, and other forms of nonfiction text.

Multiple Choice

Which text feature can you use to look up information at the back of the book and is alphabetical order?

• table of contents

• index

• sidebar

Poll

What is another name for a title?

• main idea

• topic

• paragraph

Open Ended

The Wetlands of the South

Why are the South’s wetlands so important?

The Okefenokee (oh kuh fuh NOH kee) Swamp is a large wetland in the South. A wetland is a place where the ground is soaked with water for at least part of the year.

What is the subheading in this passage?

Poll

Which text feature helps words to stand out on the page and use different fonts or styles?

• italicized words

• photographs

• bold words

• caption words

Multiple Choice

If you wanted to show the number of students who decided to play sports this year, you would use which text feature?

• map

• chart

• diagram

• photograph