Text Features

Which text feature is a drawing that shows basic shapes of land and other geographic features?

• table

• timeline

• map

• caption

Which text feature organizes large amounts of information in a small space?

• timeline

• table

• diagram

• caption

Which text feature shows important events in time order?

• graphs

• tables

• timelines

• maps

Text Features help us understand non-fiction by...

• Giving us more information about the story.

• Making the story more interesting.

• Giving us less text to read.

• Text Features don't help us at all.

A [blank] provides information about an illustration or photograph.

• glossary

• table of contents

• index

• caption

Where would you go to find the names of all chapters in a book, and the pages on which each starts?

• The table of contents

• The glossary

• The captions

• The title

Where will you find your first clue about the major topic or main idea of a specific chapter or section in a text?

• The glossary

• The title

• The caption

• The table of contents

If a word is in bold, italics, or underlined, it might be [blank].

• a less important detail

• information to be skipped over

• spelled correctly

• a new word to learn & found in the glossary!

Ms. Kersey doesn't quite understand what is happening in a picture in her book. How can she find an explanation?

• Going to the table of contents

• Looking for a graph

• Reading the caption

• Staring at it until her eyes cross

What is the purpose of these headings and subheadings?

• to help the reader understand the author's opinion

• to help the reader find the main idea of each section

• to help the reader visualize the information

• to entertain the reader