Contents
Index
Glossary
nonfiction books
Text
Types of print
Paragraphs
Pictures
Photographs
Diagrams
Maps
Close-Ups
Cutaways
Comparisons
Types of print
Help the reader by signaling,
“Look at me! I’m important!”
Paragraphs
A part of printed text dealing
with a particular idea
3 types of print
4 types of print
Labels
Help the reader identify a
picture or photograph
and/or its parts.
Captions
Help the reader better
understand a picture or
photograph.
Photographs
Help the reader
understand exactly what
something looks like.
Maps
Help the reader understand
where things are in the
world.
Cutaways
Help the reader understand something by looking at it
from the inside.
Close-Ups
Help the reader see
details in something
small.
Diagrams
Diagrams are drawings,
sketches, plans, or charts that
make something clearer or
easier to understand.
Diagrams on this
book page help us
to learn about
waves.
A food web diagram
shows who eats who.
Graphs
Show us relationships between quantities.
Comparisons
Help the reader
understand the size of
one thing by comparing it
to the size of something
familiar.