Informative Texts

What is the purpose of an informative text ?

• To entertain

• To give information

• To persuade

• To give answers

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Select the answers that are informative texts.

• Dictionaries

• Poems

• Stories

• Dramas

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Which one sounds like it would be an informative text?

• The Magical Moon Adventures of Henry the Honeybee

• Honeybees: The Big Book of Facts

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Identify the informative text.

• A story about a magical fairy princess

• An article attempting to convince readers to boycott a store chain

• A poem about the sights and sounds of rainfall

• A paper about the benefits of recycling

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Which of the following is NOT an informative text

• James and the Giant Peach

• A newspaper article

• A book about birds

• instructions on how to make something

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This is an example of an informative text

• True

• False

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Read this line from paragraph 5. Amid the ursine humor in all this, let’s not forget that for bears, developing a taste for human food is often one of the worst things that can happen to them—“a fed bear is a dead bear,” as the saying goes. The author’s tone in this line can best be described as —

• cautionary

• angry

• threatening

• pessemistic

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Which of these best summarizes the article?

• Black bears at Yosemite National Park have grown used to obtaining food from sources provided by humans, including locked cars. The bears find it relatively easy to break into vehicles, such as minivans. The more bears depend on humans for food, however, the more contact they have with humans, which is ultimately dangerous to both parties.

• Minivans may be the top choice of black bears in Yosemite National Park because they are relatively easy to break into and because minivans tend to emit food odors or contain large amounts of food. Bears seem to have learned from one another which type of vehicle to target and the best way to break in.

• Scientists conducting a study at Yosemite National Park have found that bears are more likely to break into minivans than any other type of vehicle. Several possible explanations for this behavior have been offered, including the structure of the minivan and the increased likelihood that minivans hold food. Researchers stress the danger of bears depending on humans for food.

• In a study conducted for the Journal of Mammalogy, scientists found that black bears break nto different types of vehicles with varying frequency. The bears are capable of breaking windows, bending doors open, and ripping out seats, all in search of food. Their favorite vehicle, the minivan, was not necessarily the most available.

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The author organizes the article by —

• offering statistics from various studies, presenting conflicting opinions about the studies, and ending with his personal view

• presenting the results of a study, offering some ideas about what the study shows, and then stating what researchers hope to achieve in the future

• describing the reasons why Yosemite National Park has such a large number of bears and then explaining how minivans have made the problem worse

• referring to phony research studies that claim bears prefer some kinds of vehicles over others and then dismissing these studies with conclusions from mammalogists

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Why is evidence important in developing a topic?

• It introduces new characters to the story

• It makes the essay longer

• It provides a basis for what you want to say about a topic

• It helps in creating a bibliography

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