Informational Reading Concepts

Description

• Information is presented in sections that often begin with a central idea and are followed by an elaboration of the features, characteristics, or examples of the subject at hand.

• Information is conveyed as an issue or a problem of concern and solution(s) are proposed or explained.

• The similarities and/or differences of two or more people, things, concepts, or ideas are presented

• Information reflects a causal relationship. The description of what happened is the effect and the detail(s) related to why it happened is the cause.

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Problem & Solution

• Information is presented in sections that often begin with a central idea and are followed by an elaboration of the features, characteristics, or examples of the subject at hand.

• Information is conveyed as an issue or a problem of concern and solution(s) are proposed or explained.

• The similarities and/or differences of two or more people, things, concepts, or ideas are presented

• Information reflects a causal relationship. The description of what happened is the effect and the detail(s) related to why it happened is the cause.

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Authors use this text structure to provide details, descriptions, and explanations.

• Cause & Effect

• Compare & Contrast

• Problem & Solution

• Description

• Sequence

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Type of structure used when an author wants to explain a problem, and then show one or more solutions.

• Cause & Effect

• Compare & Contrast

• Problem & Solution

• Description

• Sequence

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

passages that explain or inform.

• Compare and Contrast

• Denotation

• Literary Texts

• Informational Texts

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

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

• Cause & Effect

• Compare & Contrast

• Problem & Solution

• Description

• Sequence

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

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

• Cause & Effect

• Compare & Contrast

• Problem & Solution

• Description

• Sequence

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Compare & Contrast

• Information is presented in sections that often begin with a central idea and are followed by an elaboration of the features, characteristics, or examples of the subject at hand.

• Information is conveyed as an issue or a problem of concern and solution(s) are proposed or explained.

• The similarities and/or differences of two or more people, things, concepts, or ideas are presented

• Information reflects a causal relationship. The description of what happened is the effect and the detail(s) related to why it happened is the cause.

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Cause & Effect

• Information is presented in sections that often begin with a central idea and are followed by an elaboration of the features, characteristics, or examples of the subject at hand.

• Information is conveyed as an issue or a problem of concern and solution(s) are proposed or explained.

• The similarities and/or differences of two or more people, things, concepts, or ideas are presented

• Information reflects a causal relationship. The description of what happened is the effect and the detail(s) related to why it happened is the cause.

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

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

• Cause & Effect

• Compare & Contrast

• Problem & Solution

• Description

• Sequence

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5