1. What parts of nonfiction text help
us understand the information
better? How do they help us
organize our thoughts?

2. What are nonfiction conventions? LA 3.1 Use text features to predict
content
3.4 Recognize features of
nonfiction text
4.2 organize information using
a variety of tools

3. Labels Labels help the reader identify a picture
or photograph and its parts.

4. Photographs Sabal Palm: Florida's State Tree
Photographs help the reader
understand exactly what something
looks like.
Sabal Palm: Florida's
State Tree

5. Captions Captions help the reader better
understand a picture or photograph

6. Comparisons Comparisons help the reader
understand the size of one thing by
comparing it to the size of
something familiar.

7. Cutaways Cutaways help the reader understand
something by looking at it from the
inside.

8. Maps
Maps help the reader understand
where things are in the world.

9. Types of print Types of print help the reader by
signaling, "Look at me! I'm important!"

10. Close-Ups Close-ups help the reader see details in something small.
Close up of blood vessel with
cholesterol

11. Index Index is an alphabetical list of
almost everything written in the
text, with page numbers so you can
find the information.

12. Glossary Glossary helps the reader understand key words that are in
the text.

13. Table Table helps the reader understand the important information by
listing it in a table or chart form.

14. Activity: Find an example
of each of the nonfiction
conventions and put them
in your Nonfiction
Convention Notebook.