Text Features

You should just ignore the text features in a book. Only read the main paragraphs.

• True

• False

Which of the following text features tell a reader what they are going to read about?

• Title

• Bold Word

• Picture

• Heading

Where would you go to find more information about a book's title, author, illustrator, and publisher?

• Glossary

• Table of Contents

• Title Page

• Index

Which text feature shows how the book is organized and tells about the main chapters or sections of the book?

• Table of Contents

• Glossary

• Index

• Picture

A ___________ gives the definitions of some of the words found in a text.

• Table of Contents

• Glossary

• Index

• Picture

Which of the following text features show information in a visual way?

• Photograph

• Illustration

• Table

• Graph

• All of the above

What text feature explains what a photograph or illustration is about?

• Photograph

• Picture

• Bold Word

• Caption

Nonfiction texts can have both photographs and illustrations.

• True

• False

What is the difference between a photograph and an illustrations?

• Nonfiction books can only have photgraphs.

• Photographs are taken by a camera and illustrations are drawn by an artist.

• Photographs give you information and illustrations don't.

What does this text feature tell you?

• What a bold word means

• How many there are of something

• Where something is located

• What you will read about