Text Features: Enhance Your Reading Comprehension Skills

Question 1

You're writing about the different stages in the life of a butterfly. What would be a good title for this part of your writing?

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The Butterfly's Life Cycle

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Taking Care of Butterflies

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Fun Facts About Butterflies

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Why Butterflies Matter

Question 2

In a newspaper article, what do subheadings help us do?

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Break the article into smaller parts

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Summarize the article

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Make the article more fun

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Replace the main heading

Question 3

What is the name of a text feature that helps sort information into different parts?

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Heading

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Picture

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Caption

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Glossary

Question 4

What is the purpose of a subheading?

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To highlight key points within a section

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To give a short summary of the main topic

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To break up a text into smaller parts

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To explain unfamiliar words

Question 5

Which text feature uses pictures or drawings to show information?

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Diagram

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Table of Contents

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Index

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Glossary

Question 6

What does a caption do?

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Gives a brief description of a picture or diagram

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Explains the meaning of a word or phrase

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Lists the chapters and page numbers in a book

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Outlines the main points of a section

Question 7

Which text feature would you use to find out what a new word means?

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Glossary

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Heading

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Timeline

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Index

Question 8

Which of the following is a table of contents?

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A list of headings and page numbers at the start of a book

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A list of words and their meanings

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A timeline of events

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A graph showing data

Question 9

How can a timeline help you understand a text?

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It shows the order in which things happened

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It gives information about the characters

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It summarizes the main plot points

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It explains the setting

Question 10

Which part of a text helps you locate information quickly, like finding a section about animals?

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Heading

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Picture

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Word list

Question 11

What do subheadings do in a text?

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Divide the text into smaller, easier-to-read sections

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Add pictures to the story

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Tell you the main idea of the whole text

Question 12

Which part of a text helps you understand what the story is about by showing pictures?

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Illustration

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Diagram

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Caption

Question 13

What is the purpose of captions under pictures?

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To explain what the picture is about

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To organize the text into parts

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To make certain words stand out

Question 14

True or False: Subheadings can only be found at the beginning of sections.

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False

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True

Question 15

Which text feature shows you the order of events in a story, like what happened first, next, and last?

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Timeline

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Map

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Illustration

Question 16

What is the purpose of bold words in a text?

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To make certain words stand out and seem important

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To indicate a heading or title

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To show the definition of a word

Question 17

Which of these features in a text helps you understand the main idea of a section?

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Heading

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Index

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Table of Contents

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Glossary

Question 18

What is one reason for having an illustration in a text?

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To give more information

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To make the text more exciting

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To make the text shorter

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To tell a different story

Question 19

What is the job of a subheading?

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To divide a section into parts

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To give the main idea of the section

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To list important words

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To explain hard words

Question 20

Which of these is not a text feature?

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Sentence

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Glossary

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Caption

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Table of Contents

Question 21

What is the purpose of a caption?

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To explain a picture or diagram

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To list important words

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To give the main idea of a section

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To organize the text into sections

Question 22

Where can you find the meaning of hard words in a text?

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Glossary

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Index

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Table of Contents

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Caption

Question 23

Which of these is not a good way to use text features to help you read better?

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Skip over words you don't know.

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Look at the headings to find the main ideas.

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Read the captions to understand the pictures.

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Preview the text before you read it.

Question 24

When you read a text with many unfamiliar words, which part of the text can help you understand their meaning?

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Glossary

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Headings

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Pictures

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Table of Contents

Question 25

What part of a text gives a title to a section?

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Heading

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Picture

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Story

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Sentence

Question 26

Why do we use headings in a text?

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To give a title to a section

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To provide more details

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To include a picture

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To list important words

Question 27

When we start a new topic in a text, we usually see a

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Heading

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Summary

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Example

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Quote

Question 28

What part of a text gives more information about a picture?

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Caption

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Heading

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Illustration

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Glossary

Question 29

How do illustrations help us understand a text?

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They give us more details

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They show us pictures

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They summarize the main idea

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They explain new words

Question 30

What kind of text feature shows us information in columns and rows?

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Organizational

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Visual

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Informational

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Interactive

Question 31

What is the main reason we use a glossary?

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To define important words

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To provide a summary

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To include pictures

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To list characters

Question 32

How can a table of contents help you find a specific topic in a book?

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It shows you the page number

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It tells you the main idea

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It gives you the author's name

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It shows you all the pictures

Question 33

Why do we have headings, subheadings, and pictures in books?

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To help you find the most important information and understand what you're reading.

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To make the book look more fun and interesting.

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To make the book harder to read.

Question 34

What helps you quickly find important information in a text?

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Heading

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Period

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Paragraph

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Word

Question 35

Why do we have headings in stories?

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To give us a general idea of the story

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To show what happens next

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To help us find things in the story

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To tell us who wrote the story

Question 36

How do pictures in stories help us understand them better?

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They show us how characters and places look.

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They tell us what is happening in the story.

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They help us understand hard words.

Question 37

What is the main reason we use text features when we read?

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To help us find information quickly

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To make the text more fun to read

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To tell us what the author is thinking

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So we can skip parts of the text we don't want to read

Question 38

What does the picture in the story help you to do?

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Understand what the story is about

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Know who wrote the story

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Learn new words

Question 39

When reading a text, what should you do first to help you understand it better?

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Look at the text features first, then read the text

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Skip the text features and only read the words

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Read the text first, then look at the text features

Question 40

When you read a story, how do the pictures and headings help you learn more about the story?

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The pictures show me what the story is about, and the headings tell me the important parts.

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The pictures and the headings tell the same thing.

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The pictures and the headings don't help me understand the story.

Question 41

What text feature helps you find the main idea of a part of a text?

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Heading

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Table of Contents

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Picture

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Caption

Question 42

What is the purpose of a subheading?

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To give more specific information about a topic

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To illustrate the text

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To show the order of events

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To sum up the key idea of the text

Question 43

Which text feature can help you learn what a difficult word means?

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Glossary

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Heading

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Table of Contents

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Index

Question 44

What's the best way to understand a text using illustrations?

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Look at the details and think about how they connect to the text

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Ignore the illustrations completely

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Only look at the pictures and don't read the text

Question 45

Which of these is NOT a type of text feature?

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Paragraph

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Picture

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Sidebar

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Heading

Question 46

Why is it important to pay attention to text features?

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They can help us understand the text better

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They make the text look nicer

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They are used to fill up space

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The teacher wants us to

Question 47

What is the purpose of a caption?

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To give more information about a picture or photo

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To sum up the key idea of the text

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To show who wrote the text

Question 48

Why is it important to use text features when writing?

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They can help people understand your writing better

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They make your writing look more professional

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The teacher wants us to