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Text Features
Nonfiction Text Features
Term | Definition |
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Captions | Help you better understand a picture or a photograph |
Comparisons | These sentences help you picture something {Example: A whale is bigger than a school bus} |
Glossary | Helps you define words that are in a book |
Graphics | Charts, graphs, or cutaways are used to help you understand what the author is trying to tell you |
Illustrations/Photographs | Helps you to know exactly what something looks like |
Index | This is an alphabetical list of ideas that are in the book. It tells you what page the idea is on. |
Labels | These help you identify a photograph and its parts |
Maps | Help you understand where places are in the fiction/nonfiction world |
Special print | When a word is bold, in italics, or underlined, it is an important word for you to know |
Subtitles | These headings help you to know what the next section will be about |
Table of Contents | Helps you identify key topics in the book in the order they are presented |