Comprehension
What is a main idea?
The central point of the message!
How are mood and tone different?
Mood is how the passage makes you feel!
The tone is the way the author feels about the topic!
What type of text features do informational text include?
It can include headings, graphs, table contents and subtitles.
What is an allusion?
A brief indirect mention or reference to a person, place, idea, or older text.
How does language inspire?
Encourages you to do better or change your mindset.
What is an author's primary purpose?
The reason why the wrote something, to inform, entertain, persuade or inspire.
How can you weaken an argument or make it stronger?
What genre is informational text apart of?
Nonfiction
Winsome
charming, appealing, attractive.
How does langauge persuade ?
Pushes you to buy something
What is chronological order?
Events in the order in which they occurred.
What is juxtaposition?
Side-by-side comparison of two things to show how they are alike and different.
How is the information in informational text organized?
Order of importance or chronological order
Gale
strong wind
How can language be dangerous?
Can be mean and cause someone to hurt themselves or belittle them
What two things make up an inference?
Text evidence + schema = Inference/ New idea
What are the three reasons precise language is important?
Descriptive, wordy, and paints a picture.
What topics can informational text be on?
Anything that's true.
Manipulative
able to change facts, numbers, a situation, or other beliefs, and emotions.
What are the four different sentence strutures?
simple, compound, compound-complex and complex
How does a fact differ from an opinion?
Fact = TRUE can be PROVEN
Opinion = Someone's OWN thought, cannot be proven
How is repetition and redundancy different?
Repetition is constantly repeating something to drive home a point!
Redundancy includes words that mean the same thing when only one needs to be used.
Is Informational text persuasive or inspirational?
Persuasive
Concise
to the point
What is a phrase and clause ?
A phrase is like a prepositional phrase that adds to the sentence and a clause is either independent or dependent.