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Nonfiction Text Features Chart

The document describes various text features found in nonfiction books and their purposes, such as the title, subtitle, and illustrations. The title identifies the topic, the subtitle provides more details about the topic, and illustrations show what concepts look like. Other text features include headings, captions, labels, graphs, tables, maps, diagrams, bold and italicized text, bullet points, and fact boxes, each serving to organize information and make it easier for readers to understand.

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Nonfiction Text Features Chart

The document describes various text features found in nonfiction books and their purposes, such as the title, subtitle, and illustrations. The title identifies the topic, the subtitle provides more details about the topic, and illustrations show what concepts look like. Other text features include headings, captions, labels, graphs, tables, maps, diagrams, bold and italicized text, bullet points, and fact boxes, each serving to organize information and make it easier for readers to understand.

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Nonfiction Text Features Chart

Text Feature Purpose Example


Identifies the topic of
the text and tells
Title
what the text will be
about
Bones and More Bones
Gives the reader The Skeletal System

more information
Subtitle
about the topic of
the text

Tells a book’s title,


Title Page author, illustrator, and
publisher

Tells the names of


Table of the chapters and on
Contents what page they can
be found

Tells on what pages


Index the reader can find
certain topics
Nonfiction Text Features Chart
Text Feature Purpose Example

Tells the definitions of


Glossary some of the words
found in a text

Divides the text into


sections and explains
Heading
what the section will
be about

Shows what
something looks like
Photograph
and is taken with a
camera

Shows what
something looks like
Illustration
and is drawn by an
artist

Explains what a
Caption photograph or
illustration is about
Nonfiction Text Features Chart
Text Feature Purpose Example
Tells the name of
certain parts of the
Label
photograph or
illustration

Organizes and helps


Graph compare information in
a visual way

Organizes facts and


numbers in a visual
Table
way so they easier to
read and understand

Shows where places


Map
or events are located

Explains information or
Diagram how something words
in a visual way
Nonfiction Text Features Chart
Text Feature Purpose Example
Shows what words
are important or what
Bold Print
words can be found in
the glossary

Shows what a word is


Italics important, can place
emphasis on an idea

Makes lists easier to


Bullet Points
read and understand

Gives interesting
Fact Box / facts or extra
Sidebar information about a
topic

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