Informational Texts
What is the author's purpose in writing an informational article?
To inform or explain.
The person who tells a story.
What is the narrator?
What river is important to Louisiana's trade and history?
What is the Mississippi River?
A ruler who has total control
What is a dictator?
What the text is mostly about is called the ___.
main idea
Conflict
What is the capital of Louisiana?
What is Baton Rouge?
a person who carries out a government duty
What is an official?
What text feature helps you find the meaning of bold words?
A glossary.
The big idea of a story that the author wants you to learn.
central message or theme
The region known for its swamps and marshes.
What is the Coastal Plain?
the study of ideas about knowledge, life, and truth; literally, the love of wisdom
What is philosophy?
How can you tell the difference between a fact and an opinion?
Facts can be proven; Opinions are what someone thinks or feels.
Where a story takes place is called the __.
setting
What natural event affects Louisiana's coastlines the most?
What are hurricanes?
a social organization in which kings, lords, and peasants are bound together by mutual obligations
What is a caste?
What kind of text structure tells how things are alike and different?
Compare and contrast
True or False: All poems rhyme.
False
The number of parishes in Louisiana.
64
a wind from the south or southwest that brings heavy rainfall to Asia during the summer months
What is a monsoon?