Text
Genre
Author's Purpose
Informational Text
Random
100

The time and place where a story happens

Setting

100

This type of story is filled with facts, information, and visuals.

Informational Text

100

What does PIE stand for

Persuade, Inform, Entertain

100

Informational text is full of ____.

facts

100

____ is the lesson or moral the story is trying to teach readers.  

Theme

200

Events are listed in order that they happened...time order.

Chronological

200

This type of story seems real, and sometimes the setting is real, but the story is not real.

Realistic Fiction

200

The author's purpose for writing is to try to get the readers to do something (an advertisement)

To Persuade

200

This informational text is written about a person by another person.

Biography

200
The people, animals, etc. in the story

characters

300

When something happens (cause) then as a result something else happens...

This is CAUSE/EFFECT

300

This type of writing sometimes rhymes.

Poetry

300

The author's purpose for writing this is to make the reader enjoy the story.

To entertain
300

Informational text is usually written in this text structure (order)

Chronological

300

Charts, diagrams, pictures, maps

Graphics/visuals

400

How 2 or more things are alike and how they are different

Compare/Contrast

400

This type of story has a real setting and time period (in the past), but the characters are not real.

Historical Fiction

400

The author's purpose is to educate the reader on a topic by providing facts about a topic.

To inform

400
This genre contains lots of _____________ that usually educates the reader about a topic.

information

400

Uses pronouns like he, she, they, theirs, and the characters' names

Third person point of view

500
A story may have a ___________ that is eventually resolved with a _______________.

problem/solution

500

This type of story has heroes, exaggerations, is fictional...

Legend or fairy tale

500

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.

To inform and persuade
500

Name 2 subjects that are usually informational text.

How to books, biographies, technical or science, history

500

Uses pronouns like I, me, we, ours, us

First person point of view