Text Structure for Informational Text

The reason the author has for writing. (Inform, persuade, & entertain)

• author's purpose
• description signal words
• compare and contrast
• main idea

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

the author's word choice, sentence structure, figurative language, and sentence arrangement all work together to establish mood, images, and meaning in the text

• author's style/voice
• informational text
• cause and effect
• text features of nonfiction

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

includes essays, articles, infographics, mixed media texts, primary source documents

• informational text
• compare and contrast
• central idea
• main idea

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

how the information within a written text is organized

• text structure of nonfiction
• author's purpose
• chronological
• compare and contrast

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

words and phrases that provide a connection between ideas, sentences and paragraphs

• transition words/phrases
• argument
• author's style/voice
• chronological

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

The most important point the author makes

• central idea
• sequence
• cause and effect
• text structure of nonfiction

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

The topic sentence of a paragraph (stated or implied)

• main idea
• informational text
• text features of nonfiction
• problem and solution

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

guide words, title page, bullets, graphs, captions, text box, timeline, photographs, hyperlink, glossary, charts, cut away, illustrations, headings, icon, index, table of content

• text features of nonfiction
• central idea
• cause and effect
• problem and solution

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

claim, evidence, and reason

• argument
• text features of nonfiction
• transition words/phrases
• sequence

the order in which things happen or should happen

• sequence
• transition words/phrases
• cause and effect
• informational text

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5