Text Features
What is its purpose?
Title
The name of the book or
article, gives you the main
idea of what you are
reading
Words below or beside
photographs or charts,
explaining why the picture
is there.
The title of a paragraph or
section that tells you the
topic of the section
A smaller heading added
underneath the main
heading, dividing the text
into more categories.
Information presented in
visual form to show where
something is or location of
an event
Text that is heavier and
darker than the text
around it to show it is a
key term or vocabulary
Caption
Heading
Subheading
Map
Bold words
Italics
Timeline
Graphics (diagram, chart,
graph)
Special print type, with
letters often slanted to
the right, to show that a
word or term is important
or emphasized
Visually represents events
in history, displayed in
chronological order
Illustrations or drawings
that organize and
summarize large amounts
of information