Text Features

The first page inside the books that tells the title, author, and publisher information.

• Index

• Glossary

• Title Page

• Heading

Tells the heading or chapter and page number of each section of the book.

• Title Page

• Table of Contents

• Subheading

• Glossary

An alphabetical listing of subjects, people, and places found in the text.

• Index

• Subheading

• Caption

• Keywords

Alphabetically lists new or important words and their definitions.

• Heading

• Glossary

• Keywords

• Labels

Tells the reader what the section of the text is about.

• Heading

• Illustration

• Table of Contents

• Caption

A secondary heading used to divide the subject into more specific subcategories.

• Index

• Keywords

• Graph

• Subheading

A hand drawn image that helps the reader visualize and understand something in the text.

• Photograph

• Caption

• Graph

• Illustration

An image made with a camera that shows how things look in real life.

• Illustration

• Photograph

• Caption

• Cutaway

Words underneath or next to an image that explains more information.

• Keywords

• Cutaway

• Caption

• Map

New or important words in the text that are bold, in italics, or underlined.

• Keywords

• Caption

• Glossary

• Chart or Table