Nonfiction Reading Practice

What is the author's purpose for writing nonfiction?

• to entertain

• to persuade

• to inform

• to confuse

What would the genre be of a book written to tell you facts about the life of a real person?

• fantasy fiction

• science fiction

• realistic fiction

• biography

You are reading a book about bats, you only want to find information about their babies, what text feature should you use to help you.

• index

• glossary

• bold word

• map

You are reading a science book about water. There is a drawing of the water cycle, there are arrows and labels on the drawing showing you how water changes. What feature are you looking at?

• the table of contents

• the glossary

• a photograph

• a diagram

You are reading a book about Barack Obama and there is a bold word you do not understand. What should you do?

• find the word in the index

• find the word in the table of contents

• find the word in the glossary

• find the word in a map

You are reading a book about Simone Biles. You want to know what she looks like. What text feature should you look for?

• a photograph

• the glossary

• a bold word

• an index

You pick up a book about snakes. You wonder what kind of information is in the book. What text feature should you look at?

• glossary

• diagram

• bold word

• table of contents

You are reading a book about Kansas. You have no idea where Kansas is located. What text feature should you look for?

• photograph

• map

• bold word

• glossary

You open a nonfiction book up to the middle of the book. You wonder what that section is all about. What text feature will help you?

• index

• glossary

• subtitle or subheading

• label

You are looking at a diagram of the parts of the human body. You don't know what one of the parts is. What text feature will help you?

• glossary

• label

• table of contents

• photograph