Text Features

What is an illustration with labels?

• Glossary

• Map

• Diagram

• Table of contents

What helps the reader identify important words?

• Caption

• Diagram

• Bold Print

• Index

Helps the reader find key topics in the nonfiction book they are reading.

• Table of contents

• Glossary

• Caption

• Map

Mini dictionary found in the back of the book.

• Diagram

• Glossary

• Table of contents

• Caption

Helps the reader understand exactly what something looks like.

• Photograph

• Glossary

• Index

• Caption

Gives the reader more information about the picture.

• Diagram

• Map

• Caption

• Subheading

Helps the reader understand where things are in the world.

• Glossary

• Index

• Subheading

• Map

Genre of text about real people, animals, places, or things.

• Fiction

• Nonfiction

Alphabetical list of almost everything written in the text. It is found in the back of the book.

• Index

• Glossary

Helps the reader understand the main idea of each section.

• Caption

• Summary

• Subheading

• Index