3.3 Nonfiction Feature Detective
More Features
More important text features include:
- Bibliography - A list of books the author and resources used by the author to gather information.
- Bold print / coloured print - Draws attention to vocabulary. If a book has a glossary, the bold words are new and important words that can be found there.
- Bullets - Bullets can be dashes, circles (like the ones at the start of each idea on this list), letters, or numbers. Bullets organize and separate ideas in a list.
- Caption - The words next to or under a picture that tell what the picture is about.
- Graphic aids - all help the reader to visualize the text.
- Maps
- Diagrams (pictures, often labelled, that show parts of something)
- Charts
- Graphs
- Illustrations (hand drawn pictures)
- Heading - Tells the reader what a section or article is about.
- Photograph - Shows how something looks in "real life".
- Sidebar - Gives extra information usually in a box to one side of the page. (The orange arrow below points to a sidebar.)
- Subheading - Helps the reader "chunk" ideas into smaller parts that are related to the heading.
