Informational Text Vocabulary

The author gives you facts about a topic.

• Describe

• Explain

• Inform

• Persuade

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

The author tries to convince you to do something or think a certain way.

• Describe

• Explain

• Inform

• Persuade

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

The author wants to tell you how to do something.

• Describe

• Explain

• Inform

• Persuade

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

The author wants you to visualize an experience, person, place, or thing.

• Describe

• Explain

• Inform

• Persuade

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

Text split into two parts: one part presents a problem and the other part a solution.

• Chronological

• Cause & Effect

• Problem & Solution

• Sequence

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

Information in a passage is organized by the time in which an event occurred.

• Cause & Effect

• Chronological

• Description

• Sequence

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

The text shows how ideas or things are similar or different.

• Cause & Effect

• Compare & Contrast

• Problem & Solution

• Sequence

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

The writer places events in the order in which they happen.

• Chronolgical

• Description

• Problem & Solution

• Sequence

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Explains a topic, often in considerable detail.

• Cause & Effect

• Description

• Problem & Solution

• Sequence

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

The text shows that one event causes another thing to happen.

• Cause & Effect

• Compare & Contrast

• Description

• Problem & Solution

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D