Text Feature & Text Structure Review

The author shows how two or more things are alike and different.

• Proposition and Support

• Sequential

• Compare and Contrast

• Cause and Effect

The author describes an event or action that causes other things to happen.

• Cause and Effect

• Compare and Contrast

• Proposition and Support

• Sequential

The author presents a problem, then offers one or more solutions.

• Problem and Solution

• Cause and Effect

• Proposition and Support

• Compare and Contrast

The title or topic at the beginning of a section.

• Heading

• Diagram

• Timeline

• Glossary

Visual Images.

• Photographs and Illustrations

• Table of Contents

• Captions and Labels

• Charts and Graphics

Informational text that belongs with an illustration, photograph or diagram.

• Diagrams and Cutaways

• Heading

• Captions and Labels

• Glossary

An alphabetical list of important subjects in the text located at the back of the book.

• Index

• Table of Contents

• Glossary

• Caption

A visual image of a geographic feature, often accompanied by a key or distance scale.

• Maps

• Timeline

• Bibliography

• Heading

A list of the sections or chapters found in the front of the informational text.

• Charts and Graphics

• Table of Contents

• Inserts and Sidebars

• Bibliography

Symbols used to list facts or important information.

• Maps

• Bibliography

• Bullets, Asterisks, and Stars

• Inserts and Sidebar