1. Text Features

2. Non-Fiction 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

3. Bold Print Words with thick, heavy lines

4. Diagrams Drawings of something to show its parts
Diagrams Drawings of something to show its parts. Labels are often added to the diagram.

5. Labels Help the reader identify parts of a diagram.
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6. Glossary A alphabetized list of special words in a book and their meanings.

7. Headings The title, subtitle, or topic that stands at the top or beginning, as of a paragraph, letter, or chapter.

8. Sidebars Boxes of information to the side of the main text/column.

9. Table of Contents Helps the reader identify key topics in the book in the order they are presented.

10. Drawings Help the reader understand what something could have looked liked.
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11. Key Helps the reader know how to interpret information on a map.

12. Captions Information near a photograph or illustration that describes the subject of the picture.
A Siberian male tiger waits patiently in a zoo enclosure, that mimics his jungle habitat, for feeding time.

13. Photographs Help the reader better understand a picture or photograph
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