Vocabulary
Literary Formats
Informational Text
Author's Purpose
Miscellaneous
100
The 2 Definitions of Conclusion?
What is the ending of a story and what is making a decision?
100
Define Chronological
What is putting facts in order of time?
100
A Non-Fiction Text giving you facts about something.
What is an informational text?
100
Define Author's Purpose
What is the reason behind their writing, or why they wrote the text?
100
Define Plot Diagram
What is maps the events in a story?
200
Define Disagreeably.
What is not agreeable?
200
Define Cause & Effect
What is an action and its consequence?
200
Name 2 of the Organizational Structures of an informational text
What are:
Table of contents, index, glossary, bold text
200
Name the 3 types of Author's Purpose
What is to inform, persuade, entertain, or make an argument?
200
Name the parts of a plot diagram
What are the exposition, the rising action, the climax, the falling action, and the resolution?
300
Define Theme
What is the main idea of a story?
300
Define Comparison
What is comparing the similairities and differences between two things?
300
Name 2 visual representations in an informational text.
What are:
Graphs, Illustrations, Pictures, Captions or Charts
300
Name 2 ways to determine author's purpose.
- Consider the type of text, such as a story, essay, or news article.
- Pay attention to the author's tone, and the words they use.
The facts they use
The author's opinion:
The author's message
Consider who the author is writing for.
Consider the text structure,
- Consider when and where the text was written.
300
Parts of the setting
What is time and place of the story?
400
Define Excursion.
That is a short trip.
400
Define Descriptive?
What is giving information based on the 5 senses?
400
Name 3 examples of an Informational Text.
What are:
Encyclopedia, Newspaper, Biography, Cookbook, Textbooks, Directions, Manuals, Science Texts
400
Name 2 different writing styles author's may use to achieve their purpose
What is:
- Narrative: Relates a story or recounts events
- Descriptive: Describes how something looks, sounds, or feels
- Persuasive: Convinces the reader to believe an idea or take a course of action
- Expository: Informs or teaches the reader
400
Describe what does a plot diagram look like?
500
Define Malicious
What is mean?
500
Define Spatial?
What is describing something based on where it is in a space?
500
The purpose of an Informational Text
What is to inform?
500
Why is understanding author's purpose important?
Understanding an author's purpose can help readers engage with the content more effectively and interpret it as the author intended.
500
Define a graphic organizer
What is a visual tool that helps organize information and ideas by showing relationships between them.