Reading Informational Texts Vocabulary

These texts are passages that explain or inform.

• Informational texts

• Literary texts

• Poems

• Argumentative texts

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

A conclusion based on your own background knowledge and evidence found in the text.

• Inference

• Anecdote

• Analysis

• Text structure

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

The most important point or idea that the author is making in a text.

• Author's Purpose

• Fact

• Central Idea / Main Idea

• Author's Point of View

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

A statement that can be proven.

• Anecdote

• Opinion

• Fact

• Inference

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

A statement that cannot be proven. States an author's belief or judgment about something.

• Anecdote

• Opinion

• Inference

• Fact

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

The actual meaning of a word or phrase. Can be found in the dictionary.

• Figurative Meaning

• Connotative Meaning

• Metaphors and Similes

• Denotative meaning

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

A meaning beyond the actual meaning of a word; the meaning is inferred from certain words.

• Connotative meaning

• Figurative meaning

• Denotative meaning

• Literal meaning

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The way in which a piece of writing is structured.

• Organization

• Claim

• Topic Sentence

• Closing paragraph

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.W.6.2A

CCSS.W.6.4

Include chronological order, cause and effect, compare and contrast, order or importance, and problem and solution.

• Argumentative Writing

• Text Structures

• Organization

• Author's Purpose

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

The order in which a series of events happened. A text that is arranged in order of time from the beginning to the end.

• Order of importance

• Cause and Effect

• Chronological Order

• Problem and Solution

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5