Expository Text Pretest

Informational/Expository text is...

• Text that is performed for a live audience
• Text that gives facts about real people, places, and things
• Text that is made up for entertainment
• Text that is made up, but could really happen

What does non-fiction mean?

• Made up story
• Told like a story
• True factual information
• Realistic story

The author's purpose for writing expository text is most likely...

• To persuade
• To entertain
• To tell a story
• To inform

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

• Text features
• Story elements
• Details
• Facts

Procedural text is...

• Text that tells you about a person's life
• Text that is made up for entertainment
• Text performed in front of a live audience
• Text that tells you how to do something in order

What is Main Idea?

• The sentences that support the big picture
• The reason the author wrote the text
• The features that help guide your reading 
• The big picture or most important thing from the reading

What are Details?

• The sentences that support the big picture
• The reason the author wrote the text
• The features that help guide your reading 
• The big picture or most important thing from the reading

Facts are...

• The features that help guide your reading
• True information that can be proven
• How a person thinks or feels about a topic
• The reason the author writes the text

Opinions are...

• The features that help guide your reading
• True information that can be proven
• How a person thinks or feels about a topic
• The reason the author writes the text

What kind of question is this?
The author most likely wrote paragraph 2 because...

• Main Idea Question
• Inference Question
• Fact/Opinion Question
• Author's Purpose Question