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What is Informational Text?

What is Informational Text?. Types of Informational Text. • Textbooks • Trade books • Autobiographies and biographies • Narrative nonfiction • Newspapers • Periodicals • Magazines • Reference materials including the internet. TEXT FEATURES…. help you understand what you are reading

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What is Informational Text?

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  1. What is Informational Text?

  2. Types of Informational Text • Textbooks • Trade books • Autobiographies and biographies • Narrative nonfiction • Newspapers • Periodicals • Magazines • Reference materials including the internet

  3. TEXT FEATURES… help you understand what you are reading more clearly.

  4. Title … tells you what the text will be about.

  5. Heading… identifies topics throughout a section of the text.

  6. Subheading… identifies more specific information in the text

  7. Font… highlights key ideas or important words (bold, italics, CoLoR, underlining).

  8. Bullets… emphasize important ideas.

  9. Captions… help you understand a picture or photograph

  10. GRAPHIC FEATURES… help to represent information in a visual way.

  11. Diagrams… give you a more detailed view of information.

  12. Charts… summarize or compare information.

  13. Graphs… show how two or more things are related.

  14. Maps… show you where things are in the world.

  15. Timelines… help you understand the sequence of time.

  16. Illustrations, pictures, & photographs help you see how something looks or might have looked.

  17. TEXT ORGANIZATION The arrangement of what you are reading.

  18. Chronological… A sequence of events or steps in a process are being described. KEY WORDS: First, then, next, finally

  19. Chronological…

  20. Compare and Contrast … Likenesses and differences are being presented or discussed KEY WORDS: Similar, different, alike.

  21. Compare and Contrast …

  22. Cause and Effect/ Problem and Solution … Evidence of cause(s) and effect(s) will be given OR problems and solutions will be described KEY WORDS: Because of, due to, therefore, this explains why, since.

  23. Cause and Effect/ Problem and Solution …

  24. Description… Uses sensory language (5 senses) to explain the main idea.

  25. Description…

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