Informational writing strategies
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help!
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| A statement or piece of information that can be verified and proven to be true. | fact
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| expresses a person's viewpoint and tells what the person feels, thinks, or believes | opinion
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| consists of ideas or facts that are important and worth using-related to the topic | essential information
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| consists of ideas, examples, anecdotes, and other details that are not directly connected to the main idea | nonessential information
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| what he author is trying to accomplish through the writing - 4 basic purposes - inform, explain, entertain, and persuade | author's purpose
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| strong feelings about a subject - writing that is slanted toward a particular opinion | bias
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| biased or slanted information that is spread in order to influence the way a large group of people think and behave | propaganda
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| to "read between the lines" to make connections using clues in the text and your personal knowledge and experience to draw reasonable conclusions about the meaning of the text | inferences
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| the order in which events happen in a story | chronological order
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| description used to help readers visualize someone or something in a story | spatial order
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| one event takes place because of another | cause / effect
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| similarities and differences between two things | comparision / contrast
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| the most important information first, followed by the least or the least important information to the most important information | order of importance
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| the most important idea about a topic | main idea
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| facts, examples, reasons, data, and other ideas that support the main idea | supporting deatails
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