Non fiction Text features

• Text features help readers preview and understand nonfiction text.

Close upIt helps us to see the details in something small.

cutaway

• Shows what something looks like on the inside

Timeline

Helps the reader understand when the event happened.

Heading/Title

A heading tells the reader what they are about to read. They are in bold or in different color.

Table of Content

• a list of chapters and the pages on which they start

Index

• An alphabetical listing of names and topics along with page numbers where they are discussed

• It helps the reader to find the information quickly.

Bold text/Bold print

• Bold text/bold print calls attention to new and important words that can be fund in the glossary.

Textbox

• a box that has additional information about a topic that is written about in the text

Photos/Pictures

• visual representations of information being discussed in the text

Caption• Caption is a written description of a picture, photo, or

illustration. It explains what the picture is• Captions are found above, underneath, or beside a

picture or image.

Penguin Family in Antarctica

Caption

Graph

• Charts that represent data (Ex: Pie, Bar, Line)

Diagram

• a drawing intended to explain how something works; uses labels to

Table/Chart

• a set of data arranged in rows and columns

Map

• an illustration of the earth's surface, shows where something is

Glossary

• It is a list of difficult words and their meanings that are in a book.

• It is found in the back of the nonfiction book.

Label