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

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

author's purpose

• inform

• entertain

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

• persuade

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

caption

• description at the bottom of the page

• a title or short description of a picture

• short paragraph

• short description

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

summarize

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

• short statement

• BME

• write the main idea and supporting details

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

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

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

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

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.5.6

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5