Reading Informational Texts

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.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

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

• Cause & Effect

• Compare & Contrast

• Problem & Solution

• Description

• Sequence

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

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

• Cause & Effect

• Compare & Contrast

• Problem & Solution

• Description

• Sequence

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

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.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

passages that explain or inform.

• Compare and Contrast

• Denotation

• Literary Texts

• Informational Texts

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

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.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

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.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

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.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

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

• Cause & Effect

• Compare & Contrast

• Problem & Solution

• Description

• Sequence

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What is the purpose of the author including supporting details in a nonfiction text?

• They help provide more information about the central idea(s) of a text.

• They give the reader more knowledge about the topic of the text.

• They help the reader identify the central idea(s) of a text.

• All of the above

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.1