Reading Informational Texts

What is the text structure of the Origami passage?

• Compare and Contrast

• Description

• Sequence

• Cause and Effect

How comfortable do you feel with the central idea, supporting details, and text structure standards?

• Very Comfortable - I could teach this to a friend!

• Comfortable - I understand and would make a good grade on a test.

• Somewhat Comfortable - I could use a little more practice!

• Not Comfortable at All - I have no idea what is going on!

An author would use the attached diagram in order to...?

• explain to the reader how shark fins look

• compare and contrast a shark fin to a dolphin fin

• explain to the reader how dolphin fins look

• show which type of fin is better for breaching the water's surface

These texts are passages that explain or inform.

• Informational texts

• Literary texts

• Poems

• Argumentative texts

A conclusion based on your own background knowledge and evidence found in the text.

• Inference

• Anecdote

• Analysis

• Text structure

The most important point or idea that the author is making in a text.

• Author's Purpose

• Fact

• Central Idea / Main Idea

• Author's Point of View

Analyzes the relationships between ideas in a text; shows similarities and differences in the passage.

• Chronological order

• Compare and contrast

• Cause and effect

• Order of importance

Organizes text by listing supporting details from most important to least important, or by least important to most important.

• Chronological order

• Cause and effect

• Order of Importance

• Problem and solution

The way in which a piece of writing is structured.

• Organization

• Claim

• Topic Sentence

• Closing paragraph

The order in which a series of events happened. A text that is arranged in order of time from the beginning to the end.

• Order of importance

• Cause and Effect

• Chronological Order

• Problem and Solution