Informational Literature - (Intro)
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Andres Trevino
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Informational Text
An Overview
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What is Informational Text?
Informational text is a type of literature that is nonfiction and presents information in order to inform or educate an audience.
Informational texts are different than persuasive texts in that the former (informational texts) is driven by fact and are presented as an unbiased and objective work. Persuasive literature relies on rhetoric to convince an audience.
Informational texts simply present facts.
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Multiple Select
__________ is a type of literature that is ______ and presents information in order to inform or ______ an _______.
Informational text, nonfiction, educate, audience
nonfiction, Informational text, facts, audience
Informational text, educate, nonfiction, audience
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Types of Informational Texts
Articles
Essays
Biographies
Procedural Texts (Recipes, Instructions, Manuals, etc.)
Summaries
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Open Ended
List 3 Types of Informational Text:
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Multiple Choice
Who was MVP of Super Bowl 55?
Patrick Mahomes
Rob Gronkowski
Antonio Brown
Tom Brady
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Multiple Choice
What is informational text?
nonfiction literature that informs an audience
a type of writing where the author shares their opinion about a topic.
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Text Features
Informational texts are designed to be user-friendly, meaning that each piece of literature you encounter is embedded with features like titles, headings and subheadings, videos, gifs, pictures, and much more.
These structural features are intended to help clarify meaning for the reader, as well as to make the work more engaging and informative.
It is important that as readers we pay close attention to the text features; they are there to help us understand.
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Multiple Choice
What are text features?
design elements of fictional literature to help the reader visualize information.
structural elements of nonfiction literature intended to clarify information to the reader.
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Text Features
Footnotes, Endnotes, Citations, References, Acknowledgements
Timelines, Graphs, Illustrations
Videos, Photos
Preface, Foreword
Titles, Subtitles, Headings, Subheadings
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Open Ended
Describe text features in your own words and provide an example:
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Multiple Choice
What is the main reason that text features are included in informational texts?
to assist the reader's comprehension
to make the text more aesthetically pleasing
to keep the reader's attention
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Text Structures
Description
Sequence
Cause and Effect
Problem - Solution
Compare Contrast
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Multiple Choice
A text structure used by an author who is trying to explain the differences between two or more things.
Compare and Contrast
Descriptive
Sequence
Problem - Solution
Cause and Effect
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Multiple Choice
A text structure used by an author who is trying to explain the relationship between two ideas or events.
Compare and Contrast
Descriptive
Sequence
Problem - Solution
Cause and Effect
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Multiple Choice
A text structure used by an author who is trying to explain a process.
Compare and Contrast
Descriptive
Sequence
Problem - Solution
Cause and Effect
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Multiple Choice
A text structure used by an author who is trying to define a particular term or idea.
Compare and Contrast
Descriptive
Sequence
Problem - Solution
Cause and Effect
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Multiple Choice
A text structure used by an author who is trying to bring awareness to a particular issue and how to possibly fix it.
Compare and Contrast
Descriptive
Sequence
Problem - Solution
Cause and Effect
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