Reading Vocabulary Terms

helps the reader learn something

new by giving facts and details about a person, place, thing, or event.

The author presents a main idea and supports it with details and facts.

Informational texts may describe, define, or explain.

• Biography

• Fiction

• Non-Fiction

• Informational

a type of nonfiction writing used to convince the

reader to agree with the author about something

• expository

• narrative

• biography

• persuasive

a topic, or subject, on

which the overall selection focuses; key words: mostly about, mainly about

• theme

• central idea

• author's purose

• text features

A sentence of fact, statement, or example that supports the

main idea; the purpose of a detail is to clarify, explain, describe, or

expand the main idea.

• detail

• opinion

• fact

• persuasive

included to show or support an idea or help the

reader understand or visualize something.

• bolded words

• underline words

• photograph

• title

a drawn picture, drawing, sketch, or painting; included

to show or support an idea or help the reader understand something.

• illustration

• photograph

a title, short explanation, or description accompanying a

photograph or an illustration

• diagram

• illustration

• caption

a drawing or plan that shows the parts of something or how

the parts work together; it makes something easier to understand.

• diagram

• genre

items the author includes to help the reader make

sense of the text; ex: photographs, illustrations, captions, diagrams,

charts, graphs, maps, time lines, special print, glossary, index, labels,

titles, subtitles, bullets, table of contents

• text features

• genre

• diagram

• informational text

a particular type of literature. Ex. fiction, nonfiction, poetry,

literary nonfiction, drama, fairy tale, legend, fable, expository,

• text feature

• genre

• diagram

• illustration