Informational Texts 1

What do we call a category of text having a particular form, technique, and context?

• fiction

• genre

• section

• nonfiction

writing that portrays events that actually occurred and people that actually exist or existed

• fiction

• nonfiction

• novel

• literature

a nonfiction text such as magazines, newspapers articles, reports, and textbooks

• literature

• genre

• controlling topic

• informational

a short article on a single subject written from the author’s personal viewpoint

• essay

• biography

• autobiography

• novel

a history of a person’s life written by that person

• biography

• autobiography

• essay

• chronological

an account of a person’s life written by another person

• autobiography

• biography

• essay

• chronological

organizational methods an author uses to make his meaning clear, support his purpose, and develop his point of view

• feature

• category

• structure

• theme

Choose the correct organizational structure:

author explains a topic using descriptive details or characteristics, and is broken into sections with main ideas and supporting details

• Cause and Effect

• Description

• Chronological/Order and Sequence

• Compare and Contrast

• Problem and Solution

Choose the correct organizational structure:

describes similarities or differences between objects, places or event

• Cause and Effect

• Description

• Chronological/Order and Sequence

• Compare and Contrast

• Problem and Solution

Choose the correct organizational structure:

analyzes why something happens; examines causes, describes effects, or does both; explains why something happened (or is happening) and it predicts what probably will happen

• Cause and Effect

• Description

• Chronological/Order and Sequence

• Compare and Contrast

• Problem and Solution