Text Features

Helps the reader to better understand what they are reading about

Gives the reader extra information

Text features can be found in textbooks, magazine article, report, web pages and other forms of non-fiction text

Non-Fiction Text

Features

Bold Printwords with thick

heavy lines

Diagramsdrawings of

something to show its parts.

Labels are often added to the

diagram.

GlossaryA alphabetized list of special

words in a book and their

meanings.

HeadingsThe title,

subtitle, or topic that stands at

the top or beginning, as of

a paragraph, letter, or chapter.

SidebarsBoxes of

information to the side of the

main text/column.

Labels Helps the

reader identify parts of a diagram.

Photo courtesy of Pixabay – pubic domain images

Table of ContentsHelps the

reader identify key topics in the book in the order they

are presented

DrawingsHelps the

reader understand

what something could have

looked liked.Photo courtesy of Pixabay – pubic domain images

KeyHelps the

reader know how to interpret information on

a map.

Captions

Information that is near a photograph

or illustration that it tells.

A Siberian male tiger waits patiently in a zoo enclosure, that mimics his jungle habitat, for feeding time.

Photographs

Helps the reader better understand a

picture or photograph

Photo courtesy of Pixabay – pubic domain images