Text Structure and Text Features

This is usually found underneath a graphic aid, this explains the image or photo being seen.

A text feature that places important or interesting information into a box, often in the margin.

Which text structure explains characteristics or features of a person, place, or thing?

This is a print feature with a slanted font to emphasize an important word.

This allows readers to find information quickly using a key word; gives page numbers; in the back of book.

These drawings help the reader better understand a concept or idea in the text.

What is written text that gives information in a source of information? It's the part you read.

This structure is usually offering possible "fixes" to address a concern or issue.

What are print feature that signal important words by making them darker; usually found in glossary?

What's a text structure explaining reasons why something happens? A pattern often follows a cycle.

This is usually found in the back of a textbook; this has content-specific vocabulary and definitions.

The term meaning ability of a reader to examine a passage and to determine the organizing pattern.

Details are usually presented in a particular order, or in steps that must be followed.

This print feature enables the reader to see the main idea presented in a text.

This graphic feature shows where something is or where it happened; includes a key and a title.

When two or more ideas are presented and examined for similarities and for differences.

Name a visual feature containing both text and images, as well as dates showing chronological order.

This graphic feature within a text organizes a large amount of information or data into a table.

What's an organizational feature, usually found in the front of a textbook, with chapters and page numbers?

What are details that are arranged according to time? They're usually identifiable by presence of dates.

This supports print information by giving visual aid, to help the reader better understand.

This genre is organized into six different patterns or structures.

A graphic feature that includes a detailed illustration of something with labels showing parts.

The plot diagram represents how this type of text is organized.