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Comprehension
Unit 2
Elements of Informational Text

Text Structure
100

A sequence of events in a story

What is the plot?

100

The text is all about this. 

What is the main idea?

100

The theme of Unit 2.

What are Observations?

100

It gives you factual information about a topic or explains something.

It has a main idea and supporting details.

It has text features.

What are informational texts?

100

This text structure contains a conflict and the way it was resolved.

What is the problem and solution?

200

The highest point of a story

What is the climax?

200

The central idea of a story

What is the theme?

200

The Unit 2 Essential Question.

How do we learn through our observations?

200

An element of informational text that tells what the text is all about.

What is the main idea?

200

This text structure contains an event that happens and shows the consequence of it.

What is the cause and effect?

300

The people or animals in a story?

Who are the characters?

300

To see the text in your mind

What is to visualize?

300

Ways we learn through our observations.

What are using the scientific method.

Research

Experts (team)

Using technical tools such as microscopes, binoculars, rovers, and transmitters.

300

Maps, diagrams, pictures, captions, labels, and bold words.  

What are common text features?


300

This text structure explains what happened in a person's life from birth to their demise.

What is sequence, chronological order, or time order?

400

Events that lead to the development of conflict and the climax?

What is rising action?

400

Try this strategy first when you read something but don't understand what you've read.

What is re-read?

400

A person who writes poetry 

Who is a poet?

400

The way an author organizes information within a text. 

What is text structure?

400

This text structure identifies how two or more things are alike and different. 

What is compare and contrast?

500

How the story ends

What is the resolution, conclusion, or denouement?

500

To write a general idea about something that you've read about.

What is to summarize?

500

What is a purpose for observing?

To correct problems.

To find out how living things survive and grow.

For protection

To look for patterns and habits of a species.


500

First, next, then, finally,

because of, as a result.  

What are signal or transition words?

500

This text structure identifies characteristics of people or things.

What is description?