What is it?
Are informational texts Fiction or Nonfiction?
Nonfiction
Important vocabulary will be ______ or _______.
In italics or bold.
What is another name for Literary Nonfiction?
Creative Fiction
Is Bud Not Buddy an informational text?
No.
What Graphic organizer has a cause?
Cause and Effect
What is the purpose of informational texts?
To inform/teach the reader something.
Certain sections will have ______ or _______ above them.
What do expository texts expose to readers?
Facts.
What is an encyclopedia?
A set of book organized by letter that are filled with facts/information about anything starting with that letter.
What type of graphic organizer is a Venn Diagram?
Compare and Contrast
What should the reader easily find in an informational text?
______ representations with captions.
Visual
What type of sources do Expository Texts use?
Writing research papers, class projects, to be an informed citizen, to learn, to surf the web intelligently, to exercise your brain, to read.
What is the graphic organizer that goes in order of events (1,2,3...)?
Sequential or Chronological
What should the reader be able to understand?
The Main Topic.
What are 3 examples of visual representations.
Pictures, tables, diagrams, graphs, or charts
What is the intent of argumentative and persuasive texts?
To influence the beliefs or actions of the target audience.
Where is one place that you can find informational texts?
Database
Library
Internet
What graphic organizers has the central or main idea in the middle?
Description
What is a subgenre?
What would meatloaf do for love?
Anything
What are the two things that informational texts DO NOT have?
Fictional Characters
Plots
List 4 out of the 5 types of Informational Text?
Newspaper Articles, Magazine Articles, Encyclopedias, Science Textbooks, History Textbooks.
Why do we use a graphic organizer?
To organize information from an informational text.