Analysing Nonfiction Texts

Read this central idea from a passage.

Tablets and smartphones are being used in classrooms to connect education and technology.

Which sentence best supports this idea?

• Students need to learn to use their smartphones so that they can call during emergencies.

• Teachers use educational apps such as Learn As You Go to make learning interactive.

• Tablets and smartphones are being updated regularly to provide better user-friendly options.

Which type of text contains more than one method of communicating?

• nonliterary texts

• audio texts

• multimodal texts

What are two questions a reader should ask when analyzing how an author develops the central idea in an informational text?

• How does the author connect the ideas in the text?

• How does the author explain how he or she conducted research?

• How do the author’s techniques reinforce the central idea?

• How does the author increase awareness of the text after its publication?

Which description best defines the central idea of an informational text?

• the main point the author is trying to make

• the examples that an author uses throughout the text

• the supporting evidence an author cites

Emily is working on a 2-page persuasive paper about why her school should consider serving different kinds of milk for students. This is the list of reasons she has come up with:

Some students can't digest cow's milk.

Some are allergic to cow's milk.

Milk sales increase when variety is offered.

Based on the information above, which one of these is the best central idea for Emily's paper?

• The school could earn money to make up its budget problems if a variety of milk were offered in the cafeteria.

• The school should offer a variety of milk in the cafeteria to show sensitivity towards students' dietary needs.

• Many students at our school can't digest milk, so I propose that the cafeteria stop offering it during lunch.

explains how to do a process

• procedural

• expository

• persuasive

provides information about a topic

• procedural

• expository

• persuasive

tries to convince someone to agree

with a position or to do something

• persuasive

• expository

• procedural