Non-Fiction Vocabulary

the story of a person's life written by someone else

• biography

• autobiography

• heading

• map

bold printed words at the beginning of a section that help you find different ideas within the text

• heading

• map

• diagram

• glossary

a visual image of a geographic feature or location

• map

• diagram

• graphic feature

• glossary

the parts of a text that stand out(diagram, table of contents, and graphs)

• graphic feature

• map

• glossary

• diagram

the story of a person's life written by that person

• autobiography

• biography

• glossary

• heading

a drawing that shows how something works or a picture with labels

• diagram

• map

• heading

• table of contents

a list of difficult words and their meanings that are in a book

• glossary

• heading

• diagram

• graphic feature

a list in the beginning of a book that shows where each chapter begins

• table of contents

• heading

• autobiography

• glossary

a number line with years where events can be sequenced in chronological order

• timeline

• caption

• guide words

• index

information under a photograph that tells more about the picture

• caption

• index

• glossary

• guide words