Informational Academic Vocabulary

What is the purpose of an introduction in a piece of writing?

• To explain, clarify, and/or educate

• To list features, characteristics, or examples

• To divide a topic into parts or groups

• To give interesting facts or extra information

What are text features?

• Components of a story or article that are not part of the main body of a text

• Events listed in chronological order

• One or more causes or events and the results that occur

• How things are alike or different

How is a topic, idea, person, place, or thing described in a text?

• By listing features, characteristics, or examples

• By dividing it into parts or groups

• By explaining or describing it and providing an example

• By giving interesting facts or extra information

What does the sequence organizational pattern describe?

• The order in which events occur or the order in which to make things

• One or more causes or events and the results that occur

• How things are alike or different

• A problem and one or more possible solutions

What does the cause & effect organizational pattern list?

• One or more causes or events and the results that occur

• The order in which events occur or the order in which to make things

• How things are alike or different

• A problem and one or more possible solutions

How does the compare & contrast organizational pattern explain things?

• By listing features, characteristics, or examples

• By dividing it into parts or groups

• By explaining or describing it and providing an example

• By explaining how things are alike or different

What does the problem & solution organizational pattern state?

• A problem and one or more possible solutions

• The order in which events occur or the order in which to make things

• One or more causes or events and the results that occur

• How things are alike or different

What does the advantages/disadvantages organizational pattern discuss?

• The 'good' and 'bad' parts of a topic

• The order in which events occur or the order in which to make things

• One or more causes or events and the results that occur

• How things are alike or different

What does the classification organizational pattern do?

• Divides a topic into parts or groups and separately discusses each

• Lists one or more causes or events and the results that occur

• Explains how things are alike or different

• States a problem and lists one or more possible solutions

What does the definition organizational pattern introduce?

• A word or concept and then explains or describes it

• The order in which events occur or the order in which to make things

• One or more causes or events and the results that occur

• How things are alike or different