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What presents readers with information or ideas about real people, places, things, and events.
Informational Text
organizing information by significance rather than time or topic
Order of Importance
A piece of indisputable information
Fact
The Earth is round.
Fact
The main idea of an information text is also called the ____________.
Thesis
listing events in order of time
Chronological Order
Visual Displays of information are called ___________
Graphic Features
Only 4% of students ride their bike to school on a daily basis. (name the text feature)
Statistics
________ comes in the form of details, facts, examples, statistics, and expert opinions.
Evidence
Explaining why events occur and what happened after.
Cause and Effect
investigation or study of a subject that expand a person’s knowledge and understanding of that subject.
Research
Photosynthesis is the biological process where autotrophs (producers) use sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose (sugar) and oxygen
Specialized Vocabulary
organizational patterns are also called what?
Text Structures
words and phrases that help us understand complex or unfamiliar subjects.
Specialized Vocabulary
diagrams, graphs, charts, maps, illustrations, and photographs. They support the text's message by displaying data, showing locations, or illustrating complex structures with labels.
Graphic Features
______ are elements used to convey information to the reader and include graphs, specialized vocabulary, facts, statistics, interviews, and journal entries.
Text Features
pieces of numerical information that help readers make inferences about something.
Statistics
Spending years observing wild horses in an effort to grow more knowledgeable about them is an example of _____________
Research