Text Features Jeopardy
     
     

    Hide and Seek
     

    Helps Me Read
     

    Looks Like
     

    What’s MY Purpose
     

    100
    Found beside or under a photo, map or other graphic

    (Caption)
    Print that tells me it is important because it is a different color

    (Colored print)
    Heavier darker type .

    (Bold face words)
    Bullet

    (Makes reading lists easier and faster)
     

    200

     
    At the beginnings of paragraphs or sections of chapters

    (Headings)
    Label given to a book or article that provides clues about the content

    (Title)
    Presents information with lines, pictures and symbols .

    (graphs)
    Label

    (gives reader specific terms and names for what they see on maps, graphs, diagrams and other graphics)
     

    300
    A list of chapters in the order they appear Found at the beginning of book

    (Table of Contents)
    Helps reader understand locations of important places, people or events

    (Map)
    Slanted, lighter shaded print

    (Italics)

     
    Time-line

    (Helps reader understand the order events occurred)
     

    400
    A statement or essay that introduces a book. It is usually written by the author

    (Preface)
    Organizes Information for quick reference

    (Chart or Table)
    An alphabetical list of topics, terms, people and places providing page numbers

    (Index)
    Appendix

    (Provides more in-depth, specialized information to the reader)
     

    500

     
    Alphabetical list of key people, places events and terms with definitions found in the back of a text book.


    (Glossary)
    Organizes ideas within a section of text labeled with a heading

    (Subheading)
    A simplified drawing with labels.

    (diagram)
    Cross-section

    (Helps the reader understand what is inside something)


     

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