Informational Texts

What are informational texts?

• Passages that persuade your audience

• Passages that are stories, dramas, or poems

• Passages that explain or inform

What is an inference?

• To come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence found in the passage

• To have this directly stated in a passage as support

• The most important point or idea that the author is making in a passage

• An overview of a passage that captures the main points but does not give every detail and does not include opinions

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

What is an central idea?

• To come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence found in the passage

• To have this directly stated in a passage as support

• The most important point or idea that the author is making in a passage

• An overview of a passage that captures the main points but does not give every detail and does not include opinions

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

What is an objective summary?

• To come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence found in the passage

• To have this directly stated in a passage as support

• The most important point or idea that the author is making in a passage

• An overview of a passage that captures the main points but does not give every detail and does not include opinions

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

What is figurative meaning?

• This refers to the actual meaning of a word or phrase.

• This refers to the symbolic meaning of words or phrases and uses figurative language to express these ideas.

• A meaning beyond the actual meaning of a word and are inferred from certain words.

• The true dictionary definition of a word

• The meaning of a word as it relates to a specific subject or process

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is literal meaning?

• This refers to the actual meaning of a word or phrase.

• This refers to the symbolic meaning of words or phrases and uses figurative language to express these ideas.

• A meaning beyond the actual meaning of a word and are inferred from certain words.

• The true dictionary definition of a word

• The meaning of a word as it relates to a specific subject or process

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4D

What is connotative meaning?

• This refers to the actual meaning of a word or phrase.

• This refers to the symbolic meaning of words or phrases and uses figurative language to express these ideas.

• A meaning beyond the actual meaning of a word and are inferred from certain words.

• The true dictionary definition of a word

• The meaning of a word as it relates to a specific subject or process

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is denotative meaning?

• This refers to the actual meaning of a word or phrase.

• This refers to the symbolic meaning of words or phrases and uses figurative language to express these ideas.

• A meaning beyond the actual meaning of a word and are inferred from certain words.

• The true dictionary definition of a word

• The meaning of a word as it relates to a specific subject or process

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

What is technical meaning?

• This refers to the actual meaning of a word or phrase.

• This refers to the symbolic meaning of words or phrases and uses figurative language to express these ideas.

• A meaning beyond the actual meaning of a word and are inferred from certain words.

• The true dictionary definition of a word

• The meaning of a word as it relates to a specific subject or process

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

What is the way that a passage is structured?

• Organization

• Author's Purpose

• Text Structures

• Author's Point of View

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.5