Print and Graphic Text Features

Front

Found under pictures, diagrams, charts or photographs to help the reader better understand the picture or diagram.

Back

Captions

Front

Found at the back of the book and provides the reader with an alphabetical listing of the ideas in the book and provides the page # to read about the topic

Back

Index

Front

Usually found at the end of a passage or the back of the book to help the reader understand the meaning of important words.

Back

Glossary

Front

What helps readers see where the places in the passage are in relation to geographic regions of the world?

Back

Maps

Front

What helps the reader know what different sections of the text are about?

Back

subtitles & headings

Front

What is the function of a timeline?

Back

To help readers understand the time it took for something to happen

Front

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

Back

read the caption

Front

What are the words that are more darkened called?

Back

Bold Print

Front

Pictures taken with a camera to show objects as they appear in real life.

Back

Photograph

Front

A list of chapters in a book and the page numbers where each chapter starts.

Back

Table of Contents