This document discusses different text features found in nonfiction books and articles. It identifies headings, titles, photographs, illustrations, and captions as important features. Headings introduce topics and are often bold, large, or colorful. Titles tell the reader what the text is mostly about. Bold and italic print are used to draw attention to important information, new words, or foreign terms. The document encourages readers to look for these features in sample texts.

1. Understanding Text Features
Headings
Titles
Photographs
IllustrationsCaptions

2. What is a feature?
The word feature is used in many different
contexts, or situations
A feature is an important part of something

3. What is a feature?
What are some features of this coral reef?
Anemone
Rocks
Coral
Water
Sand
…and so on

4. What is a feature?
What are your facial features?
eyes, nose, mouth, chin, cheeks…

5. What is a feature?
What are the features of your playground?

6. Text Features
Text features are parts of text that draw
your attention to important information

7. Looking at text features
You will need an assortment of nonfiction
books or magazines for the rest of this
presentation

8. Titles
The title of a piece of writing tells what it
is mostly about

9. Titles
Look at the books you have. Notice:
-How are the titles written? What kind of font do
they use?
-Are the titles long or short?
-Are there subtitles?

10. Can you find the title of this article?

11. Can you find the title of this article?
Title

12. Headings
Headings introduce topics in
text. They are often written in
bold print, large print, or colorful
text.

13. Headings Can you find the
headings?

14. Headings
Heading
Heading
Heading

15. Headings
Look through the books that you
have. Can you find headings
that are:
-In bold print?
-Only one word?
-Questions?
-Phrases?

16. Bold and Italic print
Bold print is print that is darker or brighter than the
rest of the sentence. Authors use bold print to signal
important information or new words.
Italic print looks like this. Authors use italics to signal
important words, new ideas, or foreign words.

17. Can you find
the italicized
words?

18. Can you find
the italicized
words?
Italicized word