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?
Narrative Non-fiction
Is Twins in Space an informational text?
No. Twins in Space is a literary non-fiction interview
What informational text structure would use a Venn Diagram for a graphic organizer?
Cause and Effect
What is the purpose of informational texts?
To inform/teach the reader something.
Certain sections will have ______ or _______ above them to tell what the following section will be about.
Headings or Subheadings.
What do information texts expose to readers?
Factual information
What is resource can you use if you do not know a word or its meaning?
Dictionary
What type of graphic organizer do you use to show strategies?
4 Quadrants
What should the reader easily find in an informational text?
What can you look for to identify informational texts
graphic features
What type of genre does an author want to entertain their audience?
fiction
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 TEXT STRUCTURE that goes in order of events (1,2,3...)?
Sequential or Chronological
What should the reader be able to understand when reading the whole selection?
The Main Idea.
What are 3 examples of graphic features?
Pictures, tables, diagrams, graphs, or charts
What kind of genres do author's persuade their audience
argumentative
Where is one place that you can find informational texts?
Database
Library
Internet
What graphic organizers would you use to write an extended constructed response?
I chart
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 Structures?
chronological, descriptive, compare and contrast, cause and effect, problem and solution
Why do we use a graphic organizer?
To organize information from an informational text.