APEX Analyzing Informational Texts Vocabulary

The pattern of organization within a text

This organizational structure presents an idea or opinion and uses evidence to support the opinion.

• Chronological

• Compare and contrast

• Problem - solution

• Proposition and Support

This organizational structure defines a problem and then suggests possible solutions.

• Chronological

• Compare and contrast

• Problem - solution

• Proposition and Support

This organizational structure presents ideas or events in a logical order.

• Chronological

• Compare and contrast

• Problem - solution

• Proposition and Support

This organizational structure explains the similarities and differences between two or more things.

• Chronological

• Compare and contrast

• Problem - solution

• Proposition and Support

The main point of a text

An author's purpose, or reason for writing, can be to...

• inform

• persuade

• entertain

• bore

Any two-dimensional image that displays information visually...

A graphic representation of a place on Earth or in space.

• timeline

• map

• graph

A graphical representation of events in chronological order.

• timeline

• map

• graph