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Nonfiction Text Features

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What text feature is this?

a)

Illustration

b)

Title

c)

Graph

d)

Heading

2.

What type of text feature is this?

a)

Index

b)

Glossary

c)

Bold text

d)

Italicized text

3.

What text feature is this?

a)

Heading

b)

Graph

c)

Glossary

d)

Bold text

4.

If I did not know the definition of these words, I could find the meaning in the...

a)

Table of Contents

b)

Glossary

c)

Index

d)

Title

5.

What text feature is this?

a)

Illustration

b)

Heading

c)

Graph

d)

Caption

6.

If there were words under a picture, telling you more about it, that would be called a...

a)

Index

b)

Heading

c)

Chart

d)

Caption

7.

What appears at the bottom of a text that gives a little more information, perhaps noted by a little number or asterisk?

a)

diagram

b)

title

c)

footnote

d)

heading

8.

Which description best matches a map?

a)

found at the back of the book; includes entry words and their meanings

b)

a picture representation, including a key that shows where something is located in the world

c)

found at the front of the book; includes chapter titles and their beginning page #s

d)

organized pictoral representation of data

9.

Which description best matches the Table of Contents?

a)

found at the front of the book; includes chapter titles and their beginning page #s

b)

organized pictoral representation of data

c)

words, usually found underneath a picture that tell more information about it

d)

found at the back of the book; includes entry words and their meanings

10.

Which description best matches Glossary?

a)

an illustration drawn by the author

b)

found at the front of the book; includes chapter titles and their beginning page #s

c)

includes important words from the text and their meanings

d)

a picture representation, including a key that shows where something is located in the world

11.

What text feature is this?

a)

Graph

b)

Title

c)

Caption

d)

Glossary

12.

What text features are in this article?

a)

Label, Title, Glossary

b)

Graph, Map, Diagram

c)

Illustrations, Table of Contents, Index

d)

Photograph, Headings, Caption

13.

A timeline shows important events in the order they happened.

a)

False

b)

True

14.

A Side Bar or Fact Box gives interesting facts or extra information about a topic.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

What is the author's purpose for writing nonfiction?

a)

persuade

b)

entertain

c)

inform

16.

Why do author's use text features in nonfiction texts?

a)

To help the reader understand the information better.

b)

To persuade the reader to skip around and just read what they want.

c)

To entertain the reader in different ways.

d)

To make sure the reader does not get bored.