Informational Text
Main Idea
Inferences
Text Structures
Analysis Pyramid
100
Tells the reader what they are about to read.
What is a title?
100
A view, feeling, judgement, belief, or conclusion that may not be based on facts or knowledge.
What is an opinion?
100
A decision you can come to based on what you know and what you read?
What is drawing a conclusion?
100
Provides information or describes a topic.
What is description?
100
How many parts are on the analysis pyramid?
What is 5?
200
Class rules, instruction manuals, and Declaration of Independence are examples.
What is procedural text?
200
A statement that can be proven as true based on evidence.
What is a fact?
200
Reached from know facts or evidence.
What is an inference?
200
Similarities and differences.
What is compare and contrast?
200
An authors use of interesting words or phrases.
What is word choice?
300
Non-fiction, informs a reader of something, and uses text features.
What is informational text?
300
Who, what, when, where, why, and/or how.
What are details?
300
What you think will happen.
What is a prediction?
300
Finally, first, after that, next, then, last...
What is sequence?
300
The feelings an author creates in a text.
What is tone and mood?
400
These provide information that may not be written in the text itself.
What are text features?
400
A brief statement of the main idea.
What is a summary?
400
Words that help you understand the meaning of an unknown word.
What is context clues?
400
Explanation of how one thing leads to another.
What is cause and effect?
400
Tools the author uses to create written text. Such as metaphor, imagery, simile, and etc.
What is rhetorical or literary devices?
500
Newspapers, magazines, dictionaries, and textbooks are examples.
What is types of informational text?
500
The point or most important thought about a topic.
What is main idea?
500
Make an inference: A: Look at the long line! Do you think we’ll get in? B: I think so. Some of these people already have tickets. A: How much are the tickets? B: Only nine dollars for the first show. I’ll pay. A: Thanks. I’ll buy the popcorn.
What is a movie theater?
500
Something that causes trouble and how it is fixed.
What is problem and solution?
500
The author's message of the overall text. What the author is trying to say.
What is theme or thesis?