Argumentative
Procedural
Informational Article
Author's Purpose
Graphic Features
100

What a person believes or thinks.

Example: Animals are better than people.

What is an opinion?

100

The list of things you will need that an author includes in a procedural text.

What is a materials list or ingredients list?

100

To give a reader information about a topic.

What is the author's purpose for writing an informational article?

100

To persuade/convince us to think a certain way or change our mind.

What is the most likely reason an author writes an argumentative text?

100

A picture taken with a camera.

What is a photograph?

200

When someone is trying to convince you to change your mind or believe what they believe.

What is persuade?

200

The list of numbered steps the author includes in a procedural text.

What is the procedure?

200

The list of words and definitions at the end of a non-fiction book.

What is a glossary?

200

To teach us how to do or make something.

What is the reason an author writes a procedural text?

200

A diagram

What is an illustration that includes labels?

300

One important idea in an argumentative text that can be found near the beginning of the text.

What is the claim?
300

To teach or explain to a person how to do or make something.

What is the author's purpose for writing a procedural text?

300

The list of topics and each page number on which each topic can be found usually found at the front of a non-fiction book.

What is a table of contents?

300

To give us information over a specific topic.

What is the reason an author would write an informational article?

300

The words next to or under a photograph that explains what the picture is about.

What is a caption?

400

To get readers to do something or to believe something.

What is the author's purpose of writing an argumentative text?

400

A picture with labels that an author might include to assist the reader in understanding the procedure.

What is a diagram?

400

The title of a section of an informational text.

What is a sub-title or sub-heading?

400

It shows the reader where a certain place is located.

What is a map?

500

The text structure that an author uses that includes  what they believe and true information in order to support their argument.

What is fact and opinion?

500

A recipe, instructions, a how-to text...

What is an example of a procedural text?

500

The information an author gives on a certain topic.

What are facts?

500

A table listing important events in the order they occurred.

What is a timeline?

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