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Essential Text Features Explained

The document lists and describes common text features found in books including titles, tables of contents, indexes, glossaries, headings, sidebars, pictures, diagrams, charts, maps, cutaways, cross sections, and inset photos.

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Essential Text Features Explained

The document lists and describes common text features found in books including titles, tables of contents, indexes, glossaries, headings, sidebars, pictures, diagrams, charts, maps, cutaways, cross sections, and inset photos.

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Name of text

Purpose of text feature


feature

Title Quickly tells the reader what information they will learn about

Shows students the different chapter or section titles and where they are
Table of contents
located

Directs students where to go in the text to find specific information on a


Index
topic, word, or person

Identifies important vocabulary words for students and gives their


Glossary
definitions

Headings or
Help the reader identify the main idea for that section of text
subtitles

Are set apart from the main text, (usually located on the side or bottom
Sidebars
of the page) and elaborate on a detail mentioned in the text

Pictures and
Show an important object or idea from the text
captions

Allow readers to see detailed depictions of an object from the text with
Labeled diagrams
labels that teach the important components

Represent and show data related to, or elaborate on, something in the
Charts and graphs
main body of text

Maps Help a reader locate a place in the world that is related to text

Cutaways and Allow readers to see inside something by dissolving part of a wall or to
cross sections see all the layers of an object by bisecting it for viewing

Inset photos Can show either a faraway view of something or a close-up shot of
minute detail

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