Vocab for Informational Text

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Informational text:

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Text that presents information to explain, clarify, and/or educate.

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In writing, what does "audience" mean?

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the intended target group for a message

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Thesis/Controlling Idea?

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Main point or idea of a piece of writing.

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Nonfiction:

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writing about real people, events, things, or places.

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Topic sentence:

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Main idea/controlling idea of a paragraph.

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Supporting details/evidence?

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Specific details or facts that support an idea or inference.

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In an essay, the introduction is the first paragraph(s) that hooks the reader's attention and states the thesis.

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It is the first paragraph(s); hooks the reader's attention and states the thesis/controlling idea.

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What is a hook?

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It "grabs" the reader's attention, and it is in the introduction.

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Organizational pattern/text structure refers to how an author arranges ideas and information (e.g., compare and contrast, description, sequence).

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It refers to the way the author arranges ideas and information in a text (Ex: compare and contrast, description, sequence...).

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Author's purpose?

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Reason the author wrote the selection.