Informational writing vocabulary

Match the following

• study or examination done with the purpo

• sequential

• teaches the readers about a topic, cover

• audience

• Authors present information about events

• research

• to prepare and produce a book, story, es

• publish

• the group of people for whom a movie, TV

• informative/ explanatory writing

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CCSS.W.9-10.2

CCSS.W.9-10.2B

CCSS.W.9-10.6

Match the following

• the first version of a piece of writing

• topic

• Authors present information about events

• rough draft

• the subject of writing or speech.

• analysis/ explanation

• Authors use this structure to present in

• comparison and contrast

• after presenting evidence to support you

• sequential

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CCSS.W.9-10.2

CCSS.W.9-10.2A

rough draft

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CCSS.W.9-10.4

CCSS.W.9-10.5

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

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.W.9-10.9

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.

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CCSS.W.9-10.1

CCSS.W.9-10.1A

CCSS.W.9-10.4

Match the following

• teaches the readers about a topic, cover

• thesis statement (or thesis)

• to make changes, correct mistakes and im

• transitions

• is the most important sentence in an inf

• informative/explanatory writing

• connecting words and phrases that clarif

• edit

• to put in a particular order

• organize

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CCSS.W.9-10.2

CCSS.W.9-10.2A

CCSS.W.9-10.2C

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

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CCSS.W.9-10.4

CCSS.W.9-10.5

to put in a particular order

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CCSS.W.9-10.1A

CCSS.W.9-10.2

CCSS.W.9-10.2A

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.

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CCSS.RI.9-10.2

CCSS.W.9-10.1E

CCSS.W.9-10.2F

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

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CCSS.L.9-10.2B

CCSS.W.9-10.2B

CCSS.W.9-10.8