Informational Text Review

Informational Text Review

Expository Text Review Vocab!

Multiple Choice

Nonfiction is any text that is based in fact. Biographies, textbooks and cookbooks are all nonfiction. Informational text is a type of nonfiction. Informational text teaches a reader about the natural world or society. It informs, or gives knowledge, about a certain topic. It often contains text features like a table of contents, an index and diagrams. Articles, some essays and textbooks can be considered informational text.

• tell a made-up story about the ocean.

• contain funny, made-up characters.

• contain facts about oceans.

• not contain any facts.

Weekly Objective

I can review expository text by analyzing text features, text structures, and author's purpose.

Vocabulary Time

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Your Turn

Let's test your text feature knowledge!

Multiple Select

Look closely at the image. What text features do you see? ( List all that apply)

• Subheading

• Title/Heading

• Diagram

• Photograph

• Caption

Open Ended

If the subheading, Ordering the years, was REMOVED, how would your understanding of the text be affected?

Multiple Choice

Which feature of the selection best helps the reader understand how a winter count was designed?

• The subheadings ( the keepers role, ordering the years, a new purpose)

• The title, Winter Counts

Multiple Choice

In which section would the reader find information about why winter counts remained important even after the Lakota learned to write?

• The introductory paragraph

• The keepers role

• Ordering the years

• A new purpose

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Back to the journals!

Your turn

Show me your skills

Multiple Choice

The author’s use of comparison and contrast in paragraph 9 helps the reader understand that winter counts —

• were cared for by many different keepers

• provided information about a tribe’s members

• had unique designs but served the same purpose

• were used as calendars and to tell people’s ages

Multiple Choice

Which of the following passages has a description text structure?

• Rhesus monkeys and baboons are part of a group called Old World monkeys. Like rhesus monkeys, baboons have tails. However, baboons usually weigh more than rhesus monkeys. Baboons live in Africa and Arabia, while rhesus monkeys live in Asia.

• Scientists were preparing to send the first humans into outer space. However, they didn’t yet understand the effects that space would have on the human body. They didn’t want to put humans in danger. As a solution, they started by sending rhesus monkeys into space and studying the effects on them.

• Rhesus monkeys are primates with brown bodies and red faces. They come from Asian countries, such as Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. They are very intelligent, and some have even adapted to live near humans. Rhesus monkeys are good climbers and swimmers.

• In 1947, scientists first discovered the Zika virus in a rhesus monkey in Uganda. A year later, they learned that Zika was spread by mosquitoes. In 1952, the first cases of Zika in humans were found. The virus did not make people very sick.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following passages has a sequence text structure?

• The Olympic Games started in Greece 3,000 years ago. They took place every four years for hundreds of years. The modern form of the Olympic Games started in 1896. The best athletes from countries all over the world compete. In 2016, the Summer Olympics were held in Brazil.

• Only men were allowed to compete in the original Olympic Games. These men had to be Greek, and they could not be slaves. Slaves, women and people from other countries were excluded from the games.

• It takes a lot of food to feed all of the people who are part of the Olympic Games. It also creates a lot of leftovers. To reduce food waste, some famous chefs came up with a plan. They decided to use the leftover food from the Olympics to help feed the homeless. They cooked meals for the homeless using ingredients that would have been thrown away.

• The Olympic Games always begin with an opening ceremony, a big show that often includes music and dancing. All of the countries that are playing in the games participate. Athletes march, wearing their countries’ colors.

Multiple Choice

Piping plovers are losing their habitats. This is because humans are taking many of the beaches where they live to construct buildings. Humans have also changed the level of water in the piping plovers’ homes. Sometimes, there is too much water or too little water. As a result of the loss of their habitats, piping plovers have become an endangered species.

In the passage above the sentence in RED provides...

• a cause that led to piping plovers losing their habitats.

• an effect of humans changing the level of water in piping plovers’ homes.

• a cause that led to there being too many piping plovers.

• an effect of piping plovers leaving their homes.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following passages has a compare and contrast text structure?

• In a rural community, there are not many lights from buildings to block the stars. As a result, you can see many stars when you look up at the night sky.

• Urban and suburban communities both have stores, schools, banks, libraries and buildings. However, these things are more spread out in the suburbs than they are in urban communities.

• The tallest skyscraper in the world is Burj Khalifa in a city called Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. It has 163 stories and is 2,723 feet tall.

• People may move to the suburbs so that they can have more space but still enjoy the city. Suburbs are usually so close to a city that you can get to the city and back in the same day.