Text Features

What is the purpose of a heading?

• To confuse readers
• To distract from the main message
• To provide structure and organization to content
• To add unnecessary length to the content

What is the purpose of a caption?

• A photograph

• To provide information about a photograph, illustration, or a map.

• An illustratation

• A map

Read the caption. What type of animal is the photograph of?

• American bullfrog

• Glass frog

• toad

• Red-eye tree frog

What type of text feature?

• map

• photograph

• diagram

• illustration

What is the purpose of a diagram?

• To write a novel
• To visually represent information or concepts that includes labels.

• To bake a cake
• To fly a plane

Why would you use a glossary?

• To find the page number of a topic.

• To provide definitions and explanations of terms used in a document or text.

Why would you use a Table of Contents?

• To confuse readers and make it harder to find information
• To provide a roadmap for readers to navigate through the document and locate specific information easily.

What is the main purpose of a title in a piece of writing?

• To tell the reader what the text is about

• To provide a summary of the text

• To give the author's opinion

• To list the main points of the text

What do headings help to do in a text?

• They organize information into sections

• They provide definitions of difficult words

• They summarize the entire text

• They give examples of key points

Why might an author use bold text in a piece of writing?

• To highlight important terms for the reader

• To make the text look more interesting

• To separate different sections of the text

• To provide additional information