8th Grade Informational Text Elements

Open Ended

Describe a situation where you used facts, details, or evidence to explain an idea to someone. How did it help your explanation?

Multiple Choice

Why is it important to understand how informational text elements support a central idea?

• It helps us enjoy stories more

• It allows us to better comprehend and analyze factual information

• It makes reading faster

• It helps us memorize dates

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT an example of an informational text?

• Biography

• Diary

• Poem

• Editorial

Multiple Choice

What are the key elements commonly found in informational texts?

• Central idea, supporting evidence, pertinent examples, text features

• Plot, characters, setting, theme

• Rhythm, rhyme, meter, stanza

• Conflict, climax, resolution, protagonist

Multiple Select

Which of the following are considered supporting evidence in informational texts? (Select all that apply)

• Facts

• Examples

• Statistics

• Opinions

Open Ended

Explain how supporting evidence and pertinent examples work together to strengthen the central idea in an informational text.

Open Ended

How do features such as photos, charts, and maps help explain ideas in informational texts?

Multiple Choice

Check the information in paragraph 5 of 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave', why was discovering the “The Columbian Orator” important to Douglass?

• Douglass enjoyed reading and could read this book often.

• Douglass wanted to be free and reading helped him feel free.

• Douglass felt that he would always be an enslaved person, but this text gave him hope.

• Douglass felt that he would always be an enslaved person, and this text presented a similar fate for another enslaved person.
  

Multiple Choice

Which detail from paragraph 6 of 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave' best supports the idea that discovering “The Columbian Orator” was a key event in Douglass’s life?

• In the same book, I met with one of Sheridan’s mighty speeches on and in behalf of Catholic emancipation.

• These were choice documents to me. I read them over and over again with unabated interest.
  

• They gave tongue to interesting thoughts of my own soul, which had frequently flashed through my mind, and died away for want of utterance.

• What I got from Sheridan was a bold denunciation of slavery, and a powerful vindication of human rights.

Multiple Choice

What connection does Fredrick Douglass make between the ideas in the ”The Columbian Orator” and his own situation?

• Douglass realizes that he is just like the enslaved person in the book.

• Douglass realizes that like the enslaved person in the book, he could use the power of the truth to gain his own freedom.

• Douglass realizes that he is like the enslaved person in the book, but he will never be free.

• Douglass realizes that human rights are important.