Text Features
Identifying Informational Texts
More Informational Text Features
Understanding Informational Texts
Things we find in informational text
100
Tells the reader the topic of the text.
What is a Title
100
Shows important events in chronological order or time order, helps the reader better understand the order of events and how one event may have lead to another.
What is a timeline
100
Give information in a visual way. They help tell the story. They work with the words and headings to help teach material. They help the reader understand an idea from the text that was unclear.
What is a photograph or illustration
100
Gives step by step instructions so the reader is clear on the topic.
What is a procedural text
100
Statements of truth
What is fact
200
A list of words in alphabetical order that helps you find the meaning of key terms in a text.
What is Glossary
200
A drawing that shows or explains something. and helps the reader understand steps, how objects are made, or information in the text.
What is a diagram
200
Explains what is shown in a picture or illustration and helps the reader understand information that may or may not be in the text.
What is a caption
200
Explains ideas or gives information
What is expository
200
statements of belief or feeling within a text
What is an opinion
300
An alphabetical listing of the key names, terms, events, and topics with page numbers
What is an Index
300
Organize large amounts of information in a small space, present all kinds of data, from numbers and amounts, to calendars and menus and helps the reader compare information in the text.
What is a table
300
Identifies key facts or points
What is bullet points
300
statement of belief conveyed in expository text and supported by facts.
What is Author's Claim
300
Informational text that is organized in which something is wrong but then identifying a way to fix it.
What is problem and solution
400
Lists the major parts of a book along with their page numbers, outlines the main topics or main points and can be used to help locate information in the book and see how everything is organized.
What is Table of Contents
400
Drawings that show the basic shape of the land and other geographical, political, or historical features, present information in a visual form, help the reader understand where an event happens, and help the reader understand how far away an event took place.
What is a map
400
Sends the reader signals about how to read the content. Allows key words stand out within the text. Used in picture captions, book titles, and any other element that needs to stand out. Draws the readers attention to important information.
What is bold, italicized or colored text
400
information within the text that supports the claim made by the author
What is Textual evidence
400
Informational text organized in a way that something happens because this happens
What is cause and effect
500
These divide the text into sections, tell the main idea of each section of text, are printed in large or bold type to make them stand out, and help the reader to locate information in the text by telling them where to look.
What is Subheadings
500
Provides more information than is in the text about a topic, can include interesting facts or important information the author wants the reader to know and helps readers understand by creating interest or emphasizing important information.
What is a textbox
500
Informational text is this genre
What is non-fiction
500
a way for the author to organize informational text
What is chronological order
500
informational text written in which the topics are dissected for their similarities and differences.
What is compare and contrast
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