Informational Text Terms

What is text structure?

• a short recap of a text/story that includes important points

• background knowledge

• the way the author organizes a text

• the authors claim

What is the central idea of a story?

• the most important who/what that authors wants you the reader to understand in a story

• a short recap of a story

• supporting details

• problem and solution

using evidence from the text to figure out something

the author did not state in the text is called

• supporting details

• a good guess

• a summary

• inference

information the author uses to support the central idea in the text are called

• supporting details

• authors purpose

• a summary

• inference

How do author's support their claim in the text?

• they don't

• they infer

• persuade, inform, entertain

• they give reasons and evidence

a short recap of a text/story is called the

What are the types of text structure?

• summary and supporting details

• infer, authors claim, evidence, perspective

• cause, problems, resolution, plot, theme

• cause and effect, problem solution, compare/contrast, description, chronological

What is PIE?

• the reason the author wrote the text

• chocolate, banana, apple

• how the author feels

• Please Include Elmer

background knowledge + text evidence =

• the summary

• author's purpose

• inference

• authors perspective

how the author feels or views a topic in a text is called

• author's viewpoint or perspective

• author's purpose

• PIE

• author's claim