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