Nonfiction Text Features

A document showing all the sources used to research information.

• Glossary

• bibliography

• bullets

• Fact box

Organizes information in a list

• glossary

• index

• sidebar

• bullets

points out important words or information

• bullets

• diagram

• bold print

• caption

Words that help explain or describe a picture

• caption

• illustration

• fact box

• italic print

A picture with labels that explain details

• caption

• diagram

• graph

• illustration

gives additional information about a topic

• diagram

• parentheses

• fact box

• sidebar

alphabetically lists new or important words and shows or tells what they mean (back of the book)

• Glossary

• Index

• Table of Contents

• Title/Headline

organizes information in a way that visually compares it

• Table or chart

• Diagram

• Map

• Graph

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

• bullets

• Glossary

• Table of Contents

• Index

a hand-drawn picture that helps the reader visualize the text

• illustration

• diagram

• map

• photograph