Text Features Practice

What is the function of a timeline?

• To help readers visualize what happened
• To help readers understand the time it took for something to happen
• To give you the main idea
• It has no function

What is the difference between a illustration and picture?

•  A picture is taken with a camera
• An illustration is drawn
• An illustration is drawn and a picture is taken with a real camera
• There is no difference 

Cynthia doesn't understand what's going on in a picture in her book. What can she do?

• look in the table of contents
• look for a graph
• read the caption
• stare at it for three minutes

What is this an example of?

• Diagram

• Caption

• Illustration

• Title

____________ help the readers make sense of what they are reading.

• Text features

• Plagiarism

• Text citations

• Vocabulary

True or False: Charts, graphs, and tables are used to organize data to make it more difficult to read.

• False

• True

What is the purpose of a sidebar?

• To explain a photograph.

• To tell you the name of the text.

• To give the reader more information that is not in the text?

• To name parts of a picture.

Nonfiction or informational texts:

• give true information about a topic

• entertain using narrative story elements

• tell about an experience using rhythmic language

A glossary is most similar to a/an:

• website

• journal

• encyclopedia

• dictionary

Which text feature would you use to find the names of all the chapters in a book and the pages where they started?

• a heading

• the table of contents

• captions

• the glossary