Informational Texts 1

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What do we call a category of text having a particular form, technique, and context?

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genre

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writing that portrays events that actually occurred and people that actually exist or existed

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nonfiction

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What type of text are magazines, newspaper articles, reports, and textbooks?

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informational

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a short article on a single subject written from the author’s personal viewpoint

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essay

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a history of a person’s life written by that person

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autobiography

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an account of a person’s life written by another person

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biography

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Organizational methods an author uses to make his meaning clear, support his purpose, and develop his point of view.

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structure

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Organizational structure where the author explains a topic using descriptive details or characteristics, broken into sections with main ideas and supporting details.

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Description

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Organizational structure that describes similarities or differences between objects, places, or events:

Options: Cause and Effect, Description, Chronological/Order and Sequence, Compare and Contrast, Problem and Solution

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Compare and Contrast

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Choose the correct organizational structure:

analyzes why something happens; examines causes, describes effects, or does both; explains why something happened (or is happening) and it predicts what probably will happen

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Cause and Effect