Informational Text Terms

What is the definition of Author's Purpose?

• the reason an author writes about a particular topic (e.g., to persuade, to entertain, to inform, to explain, to analyze, etc.); the reason an author includes particular details, features, or devices in a work

• a statement that someone wants to discuss or prove

• a text that presents information in order to explain, clarify, and/or educate

• two or more modes of communication to create meaning, including written and spoken texts, images, gestures, music, digital texts and media, and live performances

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

What is the definition of Intended Audience?

• to reduce large sections of text to their essential points and main idea. Note: It is still important to attribute summarized ideas to the original source.

• the reason an author writes about a particular topic (e.g., to persuade, to entertain, to inform, to explain, to analyze, etc.); the reason an author includes particular details, features, or devices in a work

• the intended target group for a message, regardless of the way the message is delivered (text, print, video, online)

• paraphrased or directly quoted detail(s) from a text that supports a reader’s claim, thought, inference, or analysis about the text

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

What is a thesis?

• the way or pattern in which an author organizes ideas within a text

• To restate the meaning of something in different words

• an electronic text read on a computer screen or other electronic device that may include images, sound, video, and other multimodal interactive and embedded elements

• a statement that someone wants to discuss or prove

What is the definition of Supporting Evidence/Text Evidence?

• paraphrased or directly quoted detail(s) from a text that supports a reader’s claim, thought, inference, or analysis about the text

• the intended target group for a message, regardless of the way the message is delivered (text, print, video, online)

• any characteristic of the text outside the main body of the text that helps convey meaning such as titles, charts, photographs, timelines, footnotes, etc.

• a statement that someone wants to discuss or prove

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What is the definition of Digital Text?

• any characteristic of the text outside the main body of the text that helps convey meaning such as titles, charts, photographs, timelines, footnotes, etc.

• an electronic text read on a computer screen or other electronic device that may include images, sound, video, and other multimodal interactive and embedded elements

• the way or pattern in which an author organizes ideas within a text

• two or more modes of communication to create meaning, including written and spoken texts, images, gestures, music, digital texts and media, and live performances

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

What is the definition of Multimodal Text?

• a text that presents information in order to explain, clarify, and/or educate

• the way or pattern in which an author organizes ideas within a text

• an electronic text read on a computer screen or other electronic device that may include images, sound, video, and other multimodal interactive and embedded elements

• two or more modes of communication to create meaning, including written and spoken texts, images, gestures, music, digital texts and media, and live performances

What is the definition of Text/Print Features?

• text that presents information in order to explain, clarify, and/or educate

• any characteristic of the text outside the main body of the text that helps convey meaning such as titles, charts, photographs, timelines, footnotes, etc

• paraphrased or directly quoted detail(s) from a text that supports a reader’s claim, thought, inference, or analysis about the text

• To restate the meaning of something in different words.

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

What is the definition of Paraphrase?

• the intended target group for a message, regardless of the way the message is delivered (text, print, video, online)

• a text that presents information in order to explain, clarify, and/or educate

• To restate the meaning of something in different words.

• the reason an author writes about a particular topic (e.g., to persuade, to entertain, to inform, to explain, to analyze, etc.); the reason an author includes particular details, features, or devices in a work

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

What is the definition of Summary?

• two or more modes of communication to create meaning, including written and spoken texts, images, gestures, music, digital texts and media, and live performances

• the reason an author writes about a particular topic (e.g., to persuade, to entertain, to inform, to explain, to analyze, etc.); the reason an author includes particular details, features, or devices in a work

• a statement that someone wants to discuss or prove

• to reduce large sections of text to their essential points and main idea. Note: It is still important to attribute summarized ideas to the original source.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

What is the definition of Informational Text?

• paraphrased or directly quoted detail(s) from a text that supports a reader’s claim, thought, inference, or analysis about the text

• a text that presents information in order to explain, clarify, and/or educate

• the intended target group for a message, regardless of the way the message is delivered (text, print, video, online)

• the reason an author writes about a particular topic (e.g., to persuade, to entertain, to inform, to explain, to analyze, etc.); the reason an author includes particular details, features, or devices in a work

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D