Graphic Features

This feature has text within a box often with a shaded background.

• photograph

• sidebar

• timeline

• graph

This feature has large amounts of information or data organized into columns and row with headings.

• inset

• diagram

• chart/table

• map

This feature has a picture with labels on lines pointing to various parts.

• diagram

• timeline

• map

• graph

This feature has an aerial view picture which shows where someone or something is located, as well as trends for a geographic area, like population.

• sidebar

• photograph

• inset

• map

This feature helps the reader visualize events, steps, or objects described in the text.

• timeline

• photograph

• diagram

• map

This feature is a small photo or map inside or next to a larger picture and magnifies a part of the larger picture.

• diagram

• chart/table

• inset

• map

Events listed in linear (a line) format in the order that they occur.

• map

• graph

• diagram

• timeline

Makes date or information easier to understand or shows numeric information important to the text.

• diagram

• map

• graph

• inset

This feature is located at the sides, top, or bottom of a page which provides additional details, facts, or information about the text.

• diagram

• photograph

• timeline

• sidebar

This feature allows the reader understand when events in the main body of text occurred in comparison to other events.

• timeline

• diagram

• sidebar

• inset