The title of a book is its name, and it is usually featured very clearly on
the front cover and spine of the book. The title of a book tells us the main topic, or idea, that the book will be about and gets us interested in reading it.
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Sample Title Page
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2) Photos & Illustrations
Photos & illustrations give us visual information to support (add to) or enhance (make better) the words that we are reading. You will often find that non-fiction books have photographs, taken with a camera, while fiction books often have illustrations, which are pictures that are drawn.
3) Table of Contents
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4) Diagrams & Charts
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us the parts of the thing that is shown. Here is adiagram of a bird.
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A chart is a way of showing information, called data, that is
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important to what we are reading. Charts tell how much or how many of something and can be in different forms, such as bar graphs (rectangles), line graphs (dots and lines), or pie graphs (circle). Here is a chart of students' favorite after school activities.
5) Glossary & Index
A glossary is like a dictionary that includes the important vocabulary
words from a non-fiction book, and it is usually found in the back. The words are listed in alphabetical (ABC) order. The important word is in bold (darker) and then there is a definition that tells what the word means. Sometimes the glossary will also tell you what page the word is found on in the book.
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An index is a listing of the important words or ideas that a non-fiction book is about, and it is often found in the back as well. An index will sometimes be alphabetical (in ABC order) or in order by page numbers. An index will always tell the page number where the word or idea can be found in the book, but will not tell what the word or idea means.?
6) Captions & Blurbs
A caption is a label that tells about a picture or a heading that tells what a section of words will be about. The caption will usually be in a different style than all the other words on the page, such as bolded (very dark), bigger, in a color, or even in a bubble, a rectangle, or underlined.
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A blurb is an extra bit of writing on the topic of the page. It will often be near a picture, but not always, and will be separated from the other words in the book, often in a bubble or rectangle.
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On the page shown here, the caption is "speedy spots" and there areblurbs all around the page, both in bubbles and near the pictures.