Informational Text Vocabulary

Author's Purpose is.......

• All I need to know is P.I.E.

• how the author chooses to organize their writing

• the reason behind why the author is writing about the particular subject.

• who knows

Author's Organization

• The reason why the author is writing the piece

• The pictures in the text.

• The main idea.

• The way the author choses to organize the writing to deliver the information.

Summary in a Nonfiction

• Beginning, Middle, End: BME

• Characters, Setting, Problem, Solution

• Who, What, When, Where, Why/How

• The longest answer choice/

Graphic Features

• The pictures, graphs, charts, subtitles, etc.

• The title of the story.

• The main idea of a story

• The summary of a story.

Main Idea is

• Trying to make the connections.

• The most important thought the author is writing about.

• The way the author is organizing the text.

• The pictures, graphs, subtitles in the story

Supporting Idea is....

• The summary of a story.

• The reason behind why the author is writing the text.

• The details in the story that help support an idea of the authors.

• The main point of the story.

Opinion

• Statistics

• The statement in the text that I can prove what they are saying.

• Thoughts I can prove

• The statement in the story that is someone's own personal thoughts, can't prove it!

Fact is....

• Something that I can''t prove

• Statements that I can find the proof

• Someones own personal thoughts and feelings

• Everything

Commonplace Assertion

• A statement that sounds like a fact but I can't prove it.

• Someone's own personal thoughts and feelings

• Something I can prove

• Facts

Text Structure

• the main idea of a story

• Compare and Contrast, Cause and Effect, Problem and Solution, Sequence/Chronological, Description: The way the author organizes

• Compare and Contrast, Cause and Effect, Problem and Solution,

• what is this