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Features:
Are used to help a reader better
understand nonfictional texts

Title:
Gives the reader an idea
of what the book will
be about

Caption:
Words underneath a
picture or photograph
that explains what it is
or is about

heading:
divides the text into
sections and identifies
the main topic of a
page or chapter

index:
is a list of important
topics in a book with
the page number next

to them
Apple.pg. 12
Bearpg. 5
Crayon........pg. 23
Friendspg. 10

glossary:

timeline:

is a list of words in

displays events in the

ABC order relating to

sequence of when they

specific vocabulary within

occurred

the book
Fish: (n) a cold-blooded
aquatic animal

Eel: (n) snakelike fish


that lives in freshwater

Electronic

Charts or

icons:

tables:

Little pictures found on

Gives information in a

the computer desktops

visual way so that it is

or websites

easier and quicker to


read

Table of

contents

Identifies the key topics

Bold print:
Dark words, calls
attention to words that
are important

in a book

The goblin shark


lives in the deep sea
off of the coast of
South Africa.

Created by:
Kelley at buggy for second grade

Fonts by: Kevin and Miranda

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