Informational writing vocabulary

Match the following

• study or examination done with the purpo

• audience

• teaches the readers about a topic, cover

• sequential

• Authors present information about events

• informative/ explanatory writing

• the group of people for whom a movie, TV

• publish

• to prepare and produce a book, story, es

• research

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

Match the following

• Authors present information about events

• analysis/ explanation

• after presenting evidence to support you

• sequential

• Authors use this structure to present in

• topic

• the subject of writing or speech.

• comparison and contrast

• the first version of a piece of writing

• rough draft

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

rough draft

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

quote

Answer explanation

the exact words of an author or expert enclosed in quotation marks to make it clear that the ideas belong to someone else

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

thesis statement (or thesis)

Answer explanation

is the most important sentence in an informative/explanatory essay because it tells what the writer is going to say about the essay's topic. It expresses the writer's central or main idea about that topic—the position the writer will develop in the body of the essay.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.2B

CCSS.L.6.2B

CCSS.L.7.2B

CCSS.L.8.2C

CCSS.L.9-10.1.C

Match the following

• to put in a particular order

• transitions

• teaches the readers about a topic, cover

• edit

• is the most important sentence in an inf

• informative/explanatory writing

• to make changes, correct mistakes and im

• organize

• connecting words and phrases that clarif

• thesis statement (or thesis)

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

to make changes, correct mistakes and improve writing before publication.

(a)  

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

to put in a particular order

(a)  

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

the final paragraph or section of a nonfiction text.brings the discussion to a close. It follows directly from the introduction and body of the text by referring back to the ideas presented there. It should restate the thesis statement and summarize the central idea (or ideas) covered in the body of the text.

(a)  

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

the exact words of an author or expert enclosed in quotation marks to make it clear that the ideas belong to someone else

(a)  

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C