Analyzing Informational Texts

Author's Craft includes...

• The skill of the author

• The techniques the author uses

• The specific language the author uses

• The rhetorical devices the author uses

• All of the above

What is an Interpretation?

• An explanation of the meaning of something

• Summarizing a source

• Breaking something complicated down to understand it better

• Taking notes on a text to help you understand it

What are Text Features?

• The color and font of the main body of the text

• Short excerpts from longer texts

• Parts of a text that are not part of the main body of written text

• The exact words the author uses

What is Tone?

• How the text makes you feel reading it

• How you feel about the subject of the text

• How the audience interacts with the text

• The author's attitude towards their subject

What does Word Choice refer to?

• An educational game

• The specific words, phrases, and expressions that an author or speaker uses

• The words you use to respond to a text

• Choices that we make as we talk and write that have nothing to do with words

The primary purpose of Writing Conventions is to...

• Police how people write and talk

• Confuse the reader

• Help make writing more clear and understandable

• Establish tone and mood

Which of these are examples of Writing Conventions?

• Punctuation

• Spelling

• Capitalization

• Grammar

• Paragraphing

How are Subject and Theme related to each other?

• The Subject is what the author is saying about the Theme

• They are both the same thing

• They are completely unrelated

• The Theme is what the author is saying about the Subject

Why is Evidence so important?

• Evidence isn't important

• You need to be able to support your claims, ideas, and arguments

• You need to use evidence any time you write or speak

• Evidence is how we communicate ideas

Which of these are necessary for you to analyze something?

• Evidence to support your arguments/claims

• A tool or method (such as annotation) to help you understand the information yourself

• A summary of the information you are analyzing

• An argument or explanation for what the information actually means

• All of the above