Text
The time and place where a story happens
Setting
This type of story is filled with facts, information, and visuals.
Informational Text
What does PIE stand for
Persuade, Inform, Entertain
Informational text is full of ____.
facts
____ is the lesson or moral the story is trying to teach readers.
Theme
Events are listed in order that they happened...time order.
Chronological
This type of story seems real, and sometimes the setting is real, but the story is not real.
Realistic Fiction
The author's purpose for writing is to try to get the readers to do something (an advertisement)
To Persuade
This informational text is written about a person by another person.
Biography
characters
When something happens (cause) then as a result something else happens...
This is CAUSE/EFFECT
This type of writing sometimes rhymes.
Poetry
The author's purpose for writing this is to make the reader enjoy the story.
Informational text is usually written in this text structure (order)
Chronological
Charts, diagrams, pictures, maps
Graphics/visuals
How 2 or more things are alike and how they are different
Compare/Contrast
This type of story has a real setting and time period (in the past), but the characters are not real.
Historical Fiction
The author's purpose is to educate the reader on a topic by providing facts about a topic.
To inform
information
Uses pronouns like he, she, they, theirs, and the characters' names
Third person point of view
problem/solution
This type of story has heroes, exaggerations, is fictional...
Legend or fairy tale
What is the author's purpose for writing if the story has facts, information, and it is trying to get the readers to respond somehow.
Name 2 subjects that are usually informational text.
How to books, biographies, technical or science, history
Uses pronouns like I, me, we, ours, us
First person point of view