Informational Text Vocabulary

A nonfiction text that is used to inform or explain something...

• Central Idea

• Supporting Detail

• Informational Text

• Logical Order

Important words or phrases that support the central idea are called the...

• Genre

• Central Idea

• Informational Text

• Supporting Detail

The main topic of a text is called the...

• Sequence

• Genre

• Central Idea

• Logical Order

hints found within a sentence, paragraph to understand unknown words

• support

• context clues

• evidence

• claim

Based on the text, what does the word scarce mean?

• gross or rotten

• buried or covered up

• frozen

• in limited supply

Read the sentence from paragraph 3. Streams, stream banks, and the low lands around them provide important habitat for animals and plants that share the urban/suburban landscape with us. What does the word habitat mean as it is used in the sentence?

• area

• shelter

• environment

• territory

A nonfiction text, written to share factual information

• literary text

• analysis

• informational text

• central idea

What does the word impact mean?

• influence or effect

• hard-working

• boiled

• adjustment

a piece of information from a text that we use to support ideas, beliefs, opinions, or arguments

• text evidence

• claim

• context clues

• thesis

to tell, give someone facts or information

• support

• persuade

• inform

• claim