Informational Text Key Ideas

Review: Informational Texts

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Title

quickly tells the reader what information they should gain

identifies the topic

Multiple Choice

What is purpose of a title?

• to give details

• to teach someone something

• to ask questions

• to identify the main topic

Headings

help the reader identify the main idea of a section of the text

identify the topic of the section

Subheadings

organize ideas within a section of the text

Multiple Choice

What is purpose of headings?

• to identify the topic of a section

• to give directions

• to provide a visual

• to identify the main topic of the article

Picture and Caption

show an important object or idea from the text

gives a visual for something that is explained

Multiple Choice

What is purpose of using images in a text?

• to give extra facts and statistics

• to identify the central idea of the article

• to provide a visual for information

• to give the reader something to trace, copy, or color

Open Ended

What is the TITLE of this text?

Multiple Select

All of the following are in this image, except--

• a title

• a heading

• a picture

• a caption

Read this information to answer the question on the next slide.

Multiple Choice

Read the information from the article.

Which of the following questions would readers be able to answer after reading this section of the text?

• How did Simone Biles gain confidence?

• Why might a person have low self-confidence?

• What are all the steps to building self-confidence?

• How do you learn to assert yourself?

Read this information to answer the question on the next slide.

Multiple Select

Read this portion of the text (on the previous slide).

Check each of the details that support the key idea of this section of the text. *There are three (3)

• Psychologists are experts on how people think and feel.

• They say that we can change our feelings

  by changing our behavior.

• For instance, some studies have shown that we become happier if we

  walk around with a smile on our faces.

• You can speed up your path to increased self-confidence by changing your behavior.

• We all like to hear good things about ourselves.

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