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NF terms
Non Fiction terms
Term | Definition |
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Captions | help you better understand a picture or a photograph |
Comparisons | These sentences help you to picture something for example a whale shark is a little bit bigger than a school bus. |
Glossary | helps you define words that are in the book |
graphics | Charts, graphs, or cutaways are used to help you understand what the author is trying to tell you. |
Illustrations/Photographs | help you to know exactly what something looks like |
index | This is an alphabetical list of ideas that are in the book. It tells you what page the idea is on. |
Lables | these help you identify a picture or a photograph and its parts |
Maps | help you to understand where places are in the world |
Special Print | when a word is bold, in italics, or underlined, it is important for you to know |
subtitles | These headings help you to know what the next section will be about |
table of contexts | helps you identify key topics in the book in the order they are presented |