Informational Reading Key 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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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