Informational Terms

text structure

• how the information within a written text is organized

• how the text is written

• the shape of the story

• how the text is analyzed

author's purpose

• inform

• entertain

• The reason the author has for writing. ( Inform, persuade, express, & entertain)

• persuade

text features

• parts of the text we do not read

• the parts of a text that stand out (diagram, table of contents, index, etc)

• parts of the text we ignore

• parts of the text that show me details

caption

• description at the bottom of the page

• a title or short description of a picture

• short paragraph

• short description

summarize

• give a brief statement of the main points of (something).

• short statement

• BME

• write the main idea and supporting details

main idea

• what a piece of writing is mainly about

  supporting details

• what the text was in certain paragraphs

• what the text says

• what the text tells me at the end

cause and effect

• The reason that the character did something

• The reason something happens and the result of it happening.

• The reason something is done

• The reason something we read

Sequence & Order

• before, in the beginning, to start, first, next, during, after, then, finally, last, in the middle, in the end

• the order of the story

• the order of 1st through 5th

problem and solution

• A text structure that is giving solutions

• A text structure that presents a problem and offers solutions to solve the problem.

• A text structure of the story

• A text structure of the story that helps readers understand the story

description

• words that tell about an object

• words that tell about a person

• a written representation or account of a person, object, or event

• a written account of vocabulary words that are presented in the text