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Text Features
Text Features at the 7th Grade Level
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| boldfaced types | a clear a distinct darkening of text used to emphasize |
| bullets | a heavy dot to signify a list of items |
| caption | text under a picture or illustration used to explain or describe it |
| charts | provides information in graphic organizer form |
| glossary | a mini-dictionary at the end of textbook |
| graphs | a device, a pie chart or bar graph, used to illustrate |
| heading | the uppermost part of an article that functions almost like a title |
| illustration | visual representation used to decorate a text |
| index | an ABC list of topics in the text at the end of the text listing the page numbers on which they appear |
| italics | slanted text |
| map | representation of a region |
| picture | a visual representation or image on a flat surface |
| sidebar | short, often boxed, piece of info printed along side another artically that typically presents info related to the main article |
| subheading | heading or title of a subdivision of printed subject |
| summary sentence | sentence that clearly reviews, in condensed form, what article or paragraph was about |
| table of contents | a list of divisions of chapters or articles & pages on which they appear |
| title | an identifying name given to a work |
| topic sentence | first sentence of a paragraph that clearly introduces the topic or main idea of the paragraph |
| underlining | a line under something used to indicate emphasis or italic type |