Text Features!

This week we are working with text features in non-fiction text.  Text features are things like headings, illustrations, captions, diagrams, labels, maps, and graphs.  Text features help a reader by supporting the text with a visual aid or other helping feature.  This week, look at a newspaper like USA Today, which is FULL of text features.  Magazines like Time, Newsweek, and US News and World Report also depend on text features.

Here are some examples... (Thanks to whiteslitgroup.wikispaces.com)