Informational Writing Quiz 1

What is the purpose of an informational writing?

• entertain

• argue

• persuade

• inform

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What is a Thesis?

• States the main idea of a paragraph.

• States the main idea of the entire essay.

• Transitional phrases between paragraphs.

• The conclusion.

What is a topic sentence?

• A sentence that has two verbs.

• It states the entire idea of an essay.

• It states the main idea of a paragraph.

• A sentence that includes an opinion.

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What kind of evidence is often used in informational essays?

• Facts, statistics, research.

• Opinions and arguments.

• Pictures, videos, and text messages.

• Narrative details.

What is an excerpt?

• The entire text you read for your research.

• A small piece of text taken from a full text.

• A baby salmon.

• A strong conclusion.

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is a heading?

• A title at the end of a section of text.

• The end of your introduction.

• The end of your entire paper.

• A title at the beginning of a section of text.

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

When you put the words of others into your own words, you are doing what?

• plagiarizing
• summarizing

• paraphrasing

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What are text features?

• Text features are how you know if an article is non-fiction.

• Text features are the grammatical errors in a text.
• Text features are found on the last page of a text.

• Text features can include charts, maps, and images.

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

An author's purpose is...

• to write as much as possible in a short amount of time.

• to entertain their readers.

• to bore me to death.

• the reason on author writes about a topic.

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What is the intended audience?

• the target group that they author is writing for.

• the group that reads the book first.

• the people who do not trust the author.

• the film version of a text.

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6