Text Features Vocabulary

Why do authors include text features?

• Authors include text features to convey information in color.

• Authors include text features to help the reader better understand what they have read

• Authors include text features to make their articles more intersting.

A list of key words in alphabetical order located in the back of the book.

• glossary

• index

• titles

Readers use this to help locate information in the book and see how everything is organized.

• table of contents

• index

• glossary

The page inside a book that tells the title and publisher information.

• glossary

• table of contents

• title page

• graph

An author can use titles to:

• draw attention to important terms

• tell the reader who wrote the article

• tell the reader the key words in the text

• show the reader the controlling idea

An author would use a diagram to:

• show trends in information

• explain steps, how objects are made, parts of a larger item

• explain a photo

• show the reader a shape of a country

An author can use a subheading to:

(2 answers)

• help the reader locate information in the text by telling them where to look

• tell the controlling idea of each section of text

• break up long sections

• to explain in a graphic what is said in the text

A timeline can be used to:

• show important events in chronological order or time order

• identify key terms

• help understand the order of events and how one event can lead to another.

• include interesting facts or important information the author wants to reader to know.

Captions can be used to:

(2 answers)

• break up long sections

• help the reader understand information that might not be in the text.

• explain what is shown in a picture or illustration

• help the reader see the information from the text visually

What text feature are the arrows pointing at?

• subheading

• picture

• title

• text box