Informational Text Vocabulary

Informational text----

• is made up

• entertains the audience

• provides the reader with facts

• is written like a story

What text feature explains about the photograph? (a)  

• glossary

• diagram

• table of contents

• caption

What text feature has list of bold print words along with their definitions? (a)  

• glossary

• photograph

• heading

• title

What text structure organizes the text by telling the order of events?

• sequence/

  chronological order

• problem and solution

• cause and effect

• description

What text structure organizes the text by explaining how things are alike and different?

• compare and contrast

• sequence

• cause and effect

• description

What is the author's purpose for informational text?

• to explain

• to inform

• to describe

• all of the above

The ___________ is what the text is mostly about.

• genre

• main idea/central idea

• purpose

• infer

The reason an author writes the text is called...

• main idea/central idea

• text features

• author's purpose

• craft

Captions, photographs, maps, and headings are examples of...

• 
  informational

• text structures

• main idea and supporting details

• 
  text features

Section means...

• whole text

• part of the text