EOG Review

Passages that explain or inform.

• Informational texts

• Inference

• Organization

• Relationships

What the text is mostly about. These are also called the central or controlling ideas.

• Summarize

• Main ideas

• Cause and effect

• Organization

The facts and ideas that support the central idea

• Point of view

• Chronological order

• Comparison and contrast

• Key details

to provide an overview of a text that captures the main points but does not give all the details

• Summarize

• Problem and solution

• Organization

• Account

The connections between two or more people or things. When reading for information, it is important to examine the way individuals, events, ideas, and concepts interact.

• Integrate

• Interactions

• Relationships

• Evidence

how ideas influence individuals or events or how individuals influence ideas or events.

• Summarize

• Point of view

• Account

• Interactions

The way in which a piece of writing is structured. Each sentence, paragraph, or chapter fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of ideas.

• Reasons

• Organization

• Interactions

• Account

include chronological order, cause and effect, comparison and contrast, order of importance, and problem and solution.

• Organizational structures

• Point of view

• Problem and solution

• Chronological order

The order in which a series of events happened. A text that is arranged in order of time from the beginning to the end.

• Integrate

• Comparison and contrast

• Chronological order

• Reasons

Ideas are organized from least important to most important or from most important to least important

• Problem and solution

• Key details

• Order of Importance

• Organization