Text Features
Familiarise yourself with text features in this quiz.

Text Features

This KS2 English quiz takes a look at text features. Text features are used for the layout of books. Can you imagine trying to read a book that was not organised at all, but was just written sentence after sentence with nothing to help the reader find different sections? Books use titles, subheadings, different fonts, chapters, images and all sorts of other features to help readers find and understand information.

You may well be asked to put together a leaflet, newspaper or article in your lessons at school. By playing this quiz, you will have more knowledge of what is required.

Try this quiz about text features to see how well you understand the organisation of books and other texts.

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1.
A newspaper is laid out in ____.
rows
columns
tables
graphs
The pages of a newspaper usually have text laid out in several columns.
2.
Information in longer books is organised into ____.
tables
chapters
contents
blurbs
Shorter books, such as those that you had when you were learning to read, are not organised into chapters.
3.
How is a contents page arranged?
Numerically
Alphabetically
In order of the author's favourites
Randomly
'Numerically' means in number order.
4.
Any text that is more than a few sentences long will be organised into ____.
bullet points
lists
contents
paragraphs
Paragraphs help the reader to take a pause before resuming reading.
5.
What is a subheading?
The title of the book or newspaper
A definition in the glossary
A sentence beneath a photo or other image
A title for a section of text or a part of a chapter
Subheadings are useful for breaking up lengthy text.
6.
The person who draws or paints the pictures found in a book is called the ____.
editor
author
illustrator
illustrious
An illustrator illustrates the words!
7.
How is an index arranged?
In page order
In chronological order
Alphabetically
Randomly
An index is helpful because it gives you the page numbers for the different topics mentioned in a book. Because an index lists many more subjects than the contents page, it is arranged alphabetically.
8.
The first page of a book usually displays the title and author's name. What is this page called?
The contents page
The glossary
The title page
The index
The clue is in the question!
9.
The sentences of explanation found beneath a photo or other image in a text are called ____.
a caption
a definition
a blurb
an index
You may have heard of 'caption competitions' where you have to think of a funny caption to go with an image.
10.
Non-fiction books often have words printed in bold. The definitions for these words can be found in the ____.
title page
contents page
index
glossary
A glossary is like a miniature dictionary.

 

Author:  Sheri Smith

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