Text Features

What provides a visual to help the reader connect with the information?

• Heading

• Bold Words

• Caption

• Chart and Pictures

Slanted text that identifies new or important words

• illustration

• Italic Print

• Bold Print

• Graph

Lists words alphabetically and often gives the page numbers where the words occur in the text.

• Index

• Glossary

• Table of Contents

• Heading

Tells the reader what the section of the reading is about.

• Index

• Caption

• Heading

• Glossary

Gives the heading and the beginning page of each section of the book.

• Index

• Glossary

• Caption

• Table of Contents

Calls attention to new and important words

• Italic Print

• Glossary

• Photograph

• Bold Print

Found at the beginning of sections in a passage- help the reader know what different sections of the text are about

• subtitles & headings

• labels

• special print

• Illustrations

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

• Illustrations

• Captions

• Glossary

• Chart

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

• Glossary

• Photographs

• Index

• Maps

Found throughout the passage at the bottom of the text -  Help the reader by citing references or giving additional information about a word in the text.

• index

• footnote

• label

• glossary