What are nonfiction text features and why are they important?
- Authors include text features to help the reader better understand what they have read.
- Text features provide information that may not be written in the text itself.
- Text features can be found in textbooks, books, magazine articles, newspapers, reports, web pages and other forms of nonfiction text.
- Some common nonfiction text features are:
- Title Page
- Graphs, chart, table, diagram
- Special print: colored text, italics, big text, bulleted text, underlined text, bold text
- Question & Answer Section
- Table of Content
- Heading & Subheading
- Picture, Photograph and caption
- Map
- Glossary & Index
- Timeline
- Look below at our class generated Nonfiction Text Feature Posters!
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Nonfiction Text Feature Videos
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