This worksheet is designed to help students identify and understand
text features — elements in nonfiction texts that help readers find information, understand content, or navigate the material more easily.
Here’s how to solve it by identifying each text feature and explaining its purpose:
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✔ 1. Title: “Martin Luther King Jr.”
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Text Feature: Title
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Purpose: Tells the reader the main subject of the entire passage.
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✔ 2. Subheading: “Early Life”
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Text Feature: Subheading
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Purpose: Breaks the text into sections; this one tells us the paragraph will focus on MLK’s early years.
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✔ 3. Caption under photo: “King was a social activist that led the Civil Rights Movement”
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Text Feature: Caption (or Photo Caption)
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Purpose: Explains or gives context to the image; helps connect the visual to the text.
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✔ 4. Timeline: “MLK’s Early Life” with dates 1929–1955
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Text Feature: Timeline
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Purpose: Shows events in chronological order, helping readers visualize the sequence of important life events.
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✔ 5. “Did You Know?” Box
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Text Feature: Fact Box / Did You Know? Feature
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Purpose: Presents interesting or surprising facts that support or extend the main text — makes learning engaging.
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✔ 6. Vocabulary Support: “Rural: countryside”
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Text Feature: Glossary / Definition Box
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Purpose: Defines a key word (“rural”) to help readers understand unfamiliar vocabulary.
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✔ 7. Highlighted Word: “rural” in the text
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Text Feature: Highlighted Text / Key Term
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Purpose: Draws attention to an important or challenging word; often linked to a definition elsewhere (like the box below).
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✔ 8. Bold/Emphasized Words: “Doctorate’s degree”
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Text Feature: Bold Text / Emphasis
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Purpose: Highlights important terms or concepts for the reader to notice.
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✔ 9. Arrows pointing from text to boxes
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Text Feature: Callouts / Labels with Arrows
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Purpose: Visually connects specific parts of the text or image to their corresponding explanations or labels.
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## 📝 Final Answer (Filling in the Boxes):
You would fill in each blank box with the correct text feature name:
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Title → Top left box (pointing to “Martin Luther King Jr.”)
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Subheading → Box pointing to “Early Life”
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Caption → Box pointing to text under photo
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Timeline → Box pointing to the timeline graphic
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Fact Box / Did You Know? → Box pointing to “Did You Know?” section
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Glossary / Definition → Box pointing to “Rural: countryside”
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Highlighted Text → Box pointing to the yellow-highlighted word “rural”
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Bold Text → Box pointing to “Doctorate’s degree” (if not already covered)
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Callout / Label → For any arrow pointing to a feature
*(Note: Depending on how many boxes are provided, you may need to match them based on position. There are typically 8–10 boxes.)*
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## 💡 Teaching Tip:
This activity teaches students to become “text detectives” — noticing how authors organize information using visual and structural clues to make reading easier and more meaningful.
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