Non-Fiction Text Features

What does the heading tell us?

• What the article is going to be about.

• A list of important details

• A picture of a frog

• The author's personal opinion

What are nonfiction text features?

• Special elements found in the text that the author includes to draw attention to important details in the text.

• Tools that describe characters and events

• Special pictures that are supposed to distract the reader from the text

• Words that create emotions in the story

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The author uses text features to:

• help readers to visualize what the author is talking about.

• Provide a better understanding of a new topic.

• Draw attention to important details.

• Give additional information not included in the main text.

How does the author draw our attention to a certain word/ words?

• Bold

• Underline

• Italics

• tiny font

What are 3 different text features the video taught us about?