Technical Language
The small titles over sections in an informational text.
What are Headings or Sub-Headings?
This is information authors present in quotes to support their claim.
What is evidence?
What is the central idea or main idea?
This type of vocabulary is usually associated with Informational Texts. It is specific to a certain field.
Technical vocabulary or Jargon
This is what we will do on Wednesdays during bootcamp.
What is play a game to check our understanding of the learning goals?
The information often written at the very top of an informational text that provides important information about the article you're about to read.
What is a title or header?
Often the first word to a prompt or question, this word means to "figure out" or "find the meaning of".
What is to determine?
Determine the meaning of ______ in line 8.
There are often more than one of these in a paragraph; authors include this type of information to develop the central idea.
*Readers may underline or star these in an informational text.
What are important details?
Visual representations of numerical information or percentages and values, normally found in informational texts.
What are charts and graphs?
These are the two types of stations you will have each week.
Teacher-led and creative/collaborative/paper-based
This is the main point the author is trying to prove throughout the text. You need to make one in an argumentative essay.
What is a claim?
Used across text types, this word means to "create", "build up" or "improve".
What is to develop?
This is a short story that the author may include in an informational text to illustrate their point.
What is an anecdote?
These types of information are way more likely to be found in an informational text than in a narrative text.
What are hard facts, statistics, and data?
These are the three other teachers who may pull you out of class to help you prepare for FAST.
Ms. Aquino, Mr. Porter, and Ms. Aldahondo.
These are numerical facts often presented to show data on the main topic in an informational text.
What are statistics?
List two types of informational texts.
What are articles, essays, scientific journals, reports, speeches, memoirs, literary non-fiction pieces, informational texts...?
This is a fancy word for word choice.
What is diction?
What is a good strategy for comprehending an informational text.
Previewing the text for text features and structures, making predictions, or focusing on the first and last sections for central idea.
This is the date of the FAST reading test.
What is May 7?
When considering a claim, you need to evaluate the author's use of...
What is an reasoning and evidence?
When reading an informational text, pay attention to the _______ of the author's words to determine his/her tone.
What is connotation?
This is a fancy word for sentence structure.
What is syntax?
These are often the two main reasons author's write informational texts.
What is to inform, or to persuade readers?
This is the last type of text that we will practice with, according to the Bootcamp calendar.
What is a poem?