Academic Vocabulary

to recognize or determine what something is.

• Text Structure

• Identify

• Explain

• Informational Text

to make clear or give the reasons or cause of

• Identify

• Author's Perspective

• Explain

• Text Feature

nonfiction. Its primary purpose is to give insight to the reader about the natural or social world.

• Text Structure

• Text Feature

• Explain

• Informational Text

the organization of a text or how the text is structured

• Narrator's Point of View

• Text Structure

• Text Feature

• Identify

the author’s particular attitude toward or way of regarding something.

• Identify

• Author's Perspective

• Text Feature

• Explain

Information is presented in sections that often begin with a central idea and followed by elaboration of features, characteristics, or examples.

• Sequence

• Description

• Text Structure

• Problem & Solution

the components of a story or article that are not the main body of text, including the table of contents, index, glossary, headings, bold words, sidebars, pictures and captions, and labeled diagrams

• Text Feature

• Informational Text

• Identify

• Explain