2. Text Feature Activities with Real Nonfiction Articles
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Section One: map, pie chart, timeline, title, subtitle, hyperlink
Section Two: close-up, photograph, illustration, caption, textbox, bullet points, icon
Section Three: diagram, table, graph, labels, bold, italics
Section Four: index, table of contents, title page, glossary, electronic menus
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3. Dear Students, You are going to be learning about different types of text features. Can you imagine if books and magazines only showed long lines of plain words. It would be difficult to understand what something was about. Authors use special text features to make information easier to understand. Let’s try this letter again with the help of some text features. From, Your Teacher
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4. Student Letter A Special Letter to the Students
Dear Students, You are going to be learning about different types of text features. Text features help organize and show information. Authors use text features to make information easier to understand. This letter includes many different text features that you are going to learn about. Can you guess what they are? From, Your Teacher
© Gwen Jones 2013

5. Section One

6. Titles
The titles are at the top of the page. They tell you what the book, article or chapter is called.

7. Subtitles Subtitles tell more about the title.
The words are in smaller print.
They usually are underneath the title.
This book can be purchased at

8. Hyperlinks are usually in color.
Double
Click
A computer hyperlink is a word or group of words that will connect to a website on the internet.
Hyperlinks are usually in color.

9. A timeline shows the order of when things happen.
Mrs. Smith’s Academic Events
1979
1990
1993
1997
2002
2009
Graduated
Elementary
School
Graduated
Middle
School
Graduated
High
School
Graduated
College
Born
Earned
Masters
Degree

10. A map shows where something is in our world.

11. A chart organizes information so that it can be seen in a new way.
This is a pie chart.

13. Photographs are real pictures of things.

14. Illustrations
Illustrations are drawings. Sometimes real photographs aren’t available.

15. Captions
Captions have information near or below a photograph or illustration. They tell you more about the picture.
This tortoise moves slowly across the grass.
It enjoys sitting in the shade and eating leafy plants.

16. Close-Up Close-ups allow you to see something in greater detail.
These termites live in the wood walls of this house.

17. Textbox
Textboxes have information to the side of the main text, usually in a rectangle. They tell you more information about a similar topic.

18. ⏏ Icon Trash Working Eject Email Quit
A computer icon is a picture or symbol that stands for something.
What do you think these icons stand for?
If you click on them, they open or do something new.
Trash
Working
Eject
Quit ⏏

19. Bullet points are dots that help organize information in a list.
Shopping List
milk
eggs
bread
bananas
ice cream

21. Bold Print
Bold words are made with thick, dark, or heavy lines. They show you what words are important.
This zebra has
black and white stripes.

22. Italic Words This fish lives in warm tropical waters.
Italic words are slanted and help the reader understand which words are important.
This fish lives in warm tropical waters.

23. Diagram
A diagram is a simple drawing, which shows the parts or functions of something.

24. Labels
Labels identify the parts of something. They tell you what that part is called.

25. A graph also organizes information so that it can be seen.
These are bar graphs.

26. A table organizes written information.
After School Sports
Soccer
Joey
Sam
Basketball
Sally
John
Swimming
Frank
Karen

28. I Illustrated by Joe Jones
Title Page
The Mouse and
the Cat
Written by Jane Smith
I Illustrated by Joe Jones
The title page is found at the front of the book. It informs the reader of the title, author, illustrator, and publisher.

29. Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
The table of contents is found at the beginning of the book. It lets people know what page each section or chapter begins.

30. Glossary
The glossary is like a little dictionary found at the end of the book. It provides the definitions for keywords found in that specific book.

31. Index
Index
butterfly
caterpillars
cocoon 9,11
dragonfly 14,17
ladybugs
An index is found at the end of a book. It includes key words in alphabetical order. There will also be a page number to signal where that keyword can be found in the book.

32. Electronic Menus Cats Dogs Birds
Electronic menus show the places you can visit within a website. They are usually located at the top on the webpage.

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