Informational Text Vocabulary

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What does informational text do?

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provides the reader with facts

Front

What text feature explains about the photograph?

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caption

Front

What text feature has a list of bold print words along with their definitions?

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glossary

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What text structure organizes the text by telling the order of events? Options: sequence/chronological order, problem and solution, cause and effect, description

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sequence/chronological order

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What text structure organizes the text by explaining how things are alike and different?

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compare and contrast

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What is the author's purpose for informational text?

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all of the above

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What is the text mostly about?

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main idea/central idea

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The reason an author writes the text is called...

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author's purpose

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Captions, photographs, maps, and headings are examples of...

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text features

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Section means...

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part of the text