Textbooks and informational texts contain important text features to help readers understand the information. Some key text features include headings, boldfaced terms, glossaries, charts, graphs, photos, captions, tables of contents, and indexes. These features highlight important ideas, terms, and concepts. Using text features like previews, headings, bold terms and captions can help readers comprehend texts more efficiently and successfully.

2. Human beings have important elements in their bodies such as a heart, lungs, blood vessels and brain. These elements stand out from other features of our body.

3. Textbooks and informational text also have important elements that stand out from the other parts of the text.

5. These are called Text Features and their purpose is help us understand the information presented.

15. There are additional text features such as color , italics , underlining , examples, insets and many, many more!!!!

16. Authors use text features to bring attention to important details.

17. And now you are saying, “ So What? ”.

18. Here’s the, “So What!”. Putting text features into use will help you understand more of your reading, and probably allow you to do it in less time!!!!

19. You can use text features to become more successful and efficient in your reading of informational text.

20. So, next time you have a reading assignment to complete, pay attention to the text features as you read. See if you can put them to use to increase your comprehension and maybe you will even finish your assignment in less time.