Reading Informational Text

Authors use this text structure to show how one event makes other events happen.

• Cause & Effect

• Compare & Contrast

• Problem & Solution

• Description

• Sequence

Authors use this text structure to explain how things happen in order.

• Cause & Effect

• Compare & Contrast

• Problem & Solution

• Description

• Sequence

Authors use this text structure to point out similarities and differences between two or more subjects.

• Cause & Effect

• Compare & Contrast

• Problem & Solution

• Description

• Sequence

Type of structure that uses words like for example, for instance, and characteristics include.

• Cause & Effect

• Compare & Contrast

• Problem & Solution

• Description

• Sequence

Type of structure that uses words like problem, issue, threat, struggle, solve, solution, answer.

• Cause & Effect

• Compare & Contrast

• Problem & Solution

• Description

• Sequence

Informational texts:

• Informational texts are passages that explain or inform. (RI)

• Informational texts are passages that argues or inform. (RI)

• Informational texts are passages that persuades. (RI)

• Informational texts are passages that entertains or informs. (RI)

Inference:

• The author tells the reader exactly what he or she needs to know. (RI1)

• To infer means to come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence found in the text. (RI1)

• To infer means to come to a reasonable conclusion based on imaginary stories found in the text. (RI1

• By contrast, an explicit idea or message is fully stated or revealed by the author. (RI1)

Central idea:

• An overview of a text.

• To come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence found in the text.

• A short story about an interesting person or event.

• The most important point or idea that the author is making in a text.

Objective summary:

• An overview of a text; It captures the main points but does not give every detail and does not include opinions.

• To come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence found in the text.

• The most important point or idea that the author is making in a text.

• A short story about an interesting person or event.

Organization:

• The way in which a piece of writing is structured.

• The meaning beyond the explicit meaning of a word.

• The actual meaning of a word or phrase.

• An overview of a text.