Text Features: visual clues that help readers understand and locate information
Title: The name the author gives a text
Subtitle: Expands the title to provide the reader more information
Picture/photo/image: A visual representation of scenes, places, words, people...etc.
Italic and bold words: shows importance (bold= vocab, key information; italics= title, foreign words, emphasis)
Heading: Secondary title of a section organized by main ideas
Subheading: a heading under the main heading-organizes parts of the main idea
Caption: tells information about a picture
footnotes: located at the bottom of a page and gives more information about a word or subject
charts/graphs/diagrams:compares and contrasts different topics, organizes and helps readers understand data, facts, etc.
table of contents: located in the beginning- used for the reader to locate information (like chapters or stories)
index: located in the back of the book; ABC list of important/key words, names, places and what page to find them
glossary: located in the back of the book; ABC list of key terms and their definitions
Title: The name the author gives a text
Subtitle: Expands the title to provide the reader more information
Picture/photo/image: A visual representation of scenes, places, words, people...etc.
Italic and bold words: shows importance (bold= vocab, key information; italics= title, foreign words, emphasis)
Heading: Secondary title of a section organized by main ideas
Subheading: a heading under the main heading-organizes parts of the main idea
Caption: tells information about a picture
footnotes: located at the bottom of a page and gives more information about a word or subject
charts/graphs/diagrams:compares and contrasts different topics, organizes and helps readers understand data, facts, etc.
table of contents: located in the beginning- used for the reader to locate information (like chapters or stories)
index: located in the back of the book; ABC list of important/key words, names, places and what page to find them
glossary: located in the back of the book; ABC list of key terms and their definitions