Understanding Informational Passages

What is the author's purpose for writing?

• To make us laugh

• To describe

• To compare

• To inform

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What are some of the key words to determine the text structure cause & effect?

• In addition

• Solution

• As well as

• As a result

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What are some of the key words to determine the text structure description?

• For example

• Consequently

• However

• Resolution

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Text Structure examples include:

• Key details

• Problem & solution

• Main idea

• Inference

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What are some of the key words to determine the text structure: chronological?

• However

• Since

• In addition

• Next, then, last

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Readers gain a deeper understanding of text when authors include details through:

• text structures

• Inferences

• examples

• sequence

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Authors text features, examples, and anecdotes to _________________________ key information.

• Compare

• Introduce

• Underline

• Distinguish

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Sometimes in informational text, authors use ___________________, or short stories to explain key information.

• Anecdotes

• Compare & Contrast

• Inferences

• Commas

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Elaborate means to add _______________ to an explanation or illustration.

• quote

• order

• inference

• more detail

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Authors tell us information directly without details (define).

• List

• Text Features

• State or identify

• Chronological

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