1. Understanding Text Features
Photographs
Headings
Titles
Captions
Illustrations

2. What is a feature? What are your facial features?
eyes, nose, mouth, chin, cheeks…

3. Text Features
Text features are parts of text that draw your attention to important information

4. Titles
The title of a piece of writing tells what it is mostly about

5. Can you find the title of this article?

6. Can you find the title(heading) of this article?

7. Subheadings
Headings introduce topics in text. They are often written in bold print, large print, or colorful text.

8. Subheadings
Can you find the headings?

9. Subheadings
Subheading
Subheading
Subheading

10. Bold and Italic print
Bold print is print that is darker or brighter than the rest of the sentence. Authors use bold print to signal important information or new words.
Italic print looks like this. Authors use italics to signal important words, new ideas, or foreign words.

11. Can you find the italicized words?

12. Can you find the italicized words?

13. Can you find the italicized words?

14. Can you find the bold print words?

15. Can you find the bold print words?

16. Can you find the bold print words?

17. Illustrations and Photographs
Illustrations are drawings. They are created by an artist. Illustrations can be very basic, or they can be very detailed.
Photographs are taken by a photographer. They show real objects in real settings.

18. Photographs
How does the photograph help the reader understand this text?

19. Illustrations
Illustrations can do what photographs cannot. Often, artists will use illustrations to show things from the past or simplify ideas.

20. Captions
Captions are found underneath illustrations or photographs. They explain what’s in the picture.

21. Can you find the caption?
Captions
Can you find the caption?

22. Can you find the caption?
Captions
Can you find the caption?
Caption

23. Other Text Features Graphic aids Glossary Maps Table of Contents
Can you find these other text features in the books?
Graphic aids
Maps
Timelines
Bulleted lists
Glossary
Table of Contents
Index
Sidebars
Captions