Informational Text Vocabulary: Types of sources/credibility

Includes personal beliefs, feelings, and opinions.

• Facts

• Subjective

• Objective

• Statistics

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Made by people who were not directly involved in an event or present when it occurred

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

An interview

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

Someone who consistently tells the truth

• Secondary Source

• Credible

• Bias

• Claim

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Written by people who witnessed or took part in an event

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

The believability or trustworthiness of a source and the information it provides

• Secondary Source

• Bias

• Primary Source

• Credibility

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

Leaves out personal opinions and instead presents information in a straightforward, unbiased way

• Objective

• Subjective

• Primary Source

• Bias

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

A social studies textbook

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

The side of an issue that an author favors

• Objective

• Counterclaim

• Bias

• Ethos

Home movies

• Secondary Source

• Bias

• Primary Source

• Are Funny