Informational Literature - (Intro)

Informational Text

An Overview

What is Informational Text?

Informational text is a type of literature that is nonfiction and presents information in order to inform or educate an audience.

Informational texts are different than persuasive texts in that the former ^{(informational texts)} is driven by fact and are presented as an unbiased and objective work. Persuasive literature relies on rhetoric to convince an audience.

Informational texts simply present facts.

Multiple Select

__________ is a type of literature that is ______ and presents information in order to inform or ______ an _______.

• Informational text, nonfiction, educate, audience

• nonfiction, Informational text, facts, audience

• Informational text, educate, nonfiction, audience

Types of Informational Texts

• Articles

• Essays

• Biographies

• Procedural Texts (Recipes, Instructions, Manuals, etc.)

• Summaries

Open Ended

List 3 Types of Informational Text:

Multiple Choice

Who was MVP of Super Bowl 55?

• Patrick Mahomes

• Rob Gronkowski

• Antonio Brown

• Tom Brady

Multiple Choice

What is informational text?

• nonfiction literature that informs an audience

• a type of writing where the author shares their opinion about a topic.

Text Features

Informational texts are designed to be user-friendly, meaning that each piece of literature you encounter is embedded with features like titles, headings and subheadings, videos, gifs, pictures, and much more.

These structural features are intended to help clarify meaning for the reader, as well as to make the work more engaging and informative.

It is important that as readers we pay close attention to the text features; they are there to help us understand.

Multiple Choice

What are text features?

• design elements of fictional literature to help the reader visualize information.

• structural elements of nonfiction literature intended to clarify information to the reader.

Text Features

• Footnotes, Endnotes, Citations, References, Acknowledgements

• Timelines, Graphs, Illustrations

• Videos, Photos

• Preface, Foreword

• Titles, Subtitles, Headings, Subheadings

Open Ended

Describe text features in your own words and provide an example:

Multiple Choice

What is the main reason that text features are included in informational texts?

• to assist the reader's comprehension

• to make the text more aesthetically pleasing

• to keep the reader's attention

Text Structures

• Description

• Sequence

• Cause and Effect

• Problem - Solution

• Compare Contrast

Multiple Choice

A text structure used by an author who is trying to explain the differences between two or more things.

• Compare and Contrast

• Descriptive

• Sequence

• Problem - Solution

• Cause and Effect

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A text structure used by an author who is trying to explain the relationship between two ideas or events.

• Compare and Contrast

• Descriptive

• Sequence

• Problem - Solution

• Cause and Effect

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A text structure used by an author who is trying to explain a process.

• Compare and Contrast

• Descriptive

• Sequence

• Problem - Solution

• Cause and Effect

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A text structure used by an author who is trying to define a particular term or idea.

• Compare and Contrast

• Descriptive

• Sequence

• Problem - Solution

• Cause and Effect

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A text structure used by an author who is trying to bring awareness to a particular issue and how to possibly fix it.

• Compare and Contrast

• Descriptive

• Sequence

• Problem - Solution

• Cause and Effect