Text Features Chart - Roanoke County Public Schools

1 About This Resource This Chart provides the purpose and a visual example of 18. different text Features . Use this as a student handout/. student notes, for interactive journals, or hang it on the wall as a student reference. You can buy a comprehensive text Features resource here. You might also find these text Features blog posts helpful: Free Text Features Slideshow Text feature Scavenger Hunt Ideas Text feature Anchor Charts Integrating Technology While Teaching Text Features The following text Features are included: title labels title page graph table of contents table index map glossary diagram heading bold print photograph italics illustration bullet points caption fact box/side bar Nonfiction Text Features Chart Text feature Purpose Example Identifies the topic Title of the text/tells what the text will be about Tells a book's title, Title Page author, illustrator, and publisher Tells the names of Table of chapters and what page the chapters Contents can be found Tells what pages the Index reader can find certain topics Tells the definitions Glossary of some of the words found in a text Divides the text into sections and explains Heading what the sections will be about 2015 Kalena Baker: Teaching Made Practical.

2 All rights reserved. Nonfiction Text Features Chart Text feature Purpose Example Shows what something looks like Photograph (taken with a camera). Shows what Illustration something looks like (drawn by an artist). Explains what a Caption photograph or illustration is about Tells the names of certain parts of a Labels photograph or illustration Organizes and helps Graph compare information in a visual way Organizes facts and numbers in a visual Table way so it is easier to read 2015 Kalena Baker: Teaching Made Practical. All rights reserved. Nonfiction Text Features Chart Text feature Purpose Example Shows where places/. Map events are located Explains information Diagram or how something works in a visual way Shows what words are important or Bold Print what words can be found in the glossary Shows that a word is Italics important Bullet Makes lists easier to read and understand Points Gives interesting Fact Box/ facts or extra information about a Side Bar topic 2015 Kalena Baker: Teaching Made Practical.

3 All rights reserved. Save time planning with the complete resource: Text Features Activities Centers, Posters, Reading Passages, and More. It includes no prep activities, reading passages, task cards, centers, writing integration, and more! You might also find these blog posts helpful: How to Scaffold a Compare and Contrast Essay Text feature Scavenger Hunts Morning Work Made Easy Character Traits: Free Graphic Organizers Point of View: It's Not Just About 1st and 3rd Acknowledgements 2014 Kalena Baker: Teaching Made Practical. Updated 2017. All rights By copyright law, the download of this product entitles one teacher the use of the digital and printed files for a single classroom. Files are not to be shared or published (including being displayed on a website) in any way without direct permission from the author, Kalena Baker.