Text Features and Main Idea

This text feature is the title of a paragraph or section of a text.

• Photographs

• Title

• Caption

• Heading

This text feature helps readers visualize (see) what they read. It is taken with a camera.

• Illustration

• Caption

• Photograph

• Heading

This text feature is the name of a text. It helps readers identify the topic and predict the main idea of a text.

• Heading

• Title

• Caption

• Illustration

These are the words near a photograph or illustration in a text.

• Illustrations

• Photographs

• Captions

• Headings

These are drawings used to help readers visualize (see) what they read.

• Captions

• Illustrations

• Titles

• Photographs

This term tells who or what a text is about. It is expressed in one or two words.

• Main idea

• Topic

• Topic sentence

• Supporting detail

Renewable resources is a topic?

• True

• False

Which of the following is a main idea?

• Renewable resources are better than nonrenewable resources.

• Renewable resources and nonrenewable resources

• Solar energy

• Greenhouse effect

The main idea is always a sentence.

• False

• True

How can you use the topic "School uniforms" a complete sentence?

• School uniforms and everyday clothes

• because school uniforms

• School uniforms show school spirit

• Expensive school uniforms