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InfoTextPractice
Study informational text types & features
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| recipe | lists ingredients of meals and explains how to prepare them |
| biography | story of someone's life written by another person |
| autobiography | story of someone's life written by that person |
| atlas | a book of maps often including illustrations, tables, and charts |
| memoir | a written description or story of a personal experience |
| essay | a written description of a single subject |
| speech | something that is written but meant to be delivered in front of an audience |
| historical document | contains important information about a person, place, or event which occurred in the past |
| interview | a meeting between people with questions and answers to obtain information |
| official document | expresses an agreement or right, a contract, or relationship |
| first hand account | a description of an event by someone who was actually there |
| newspaper article | discusses current or recent news of general interest |
| magazine article | something written about a specific topic of interest in a monthly or weekly publication |
| menu | a document which provides meal choices, descriptions, and prices at a restaurant |
| brochure | a booklet containing advertising material |
| diary | a daily record of personal activities and feelings |
| textbook | a book used in the study of a certain subject |
| messages sent and received through a computer | |
| web page | an information resource on the internet |
| manual | a step by step guide about how to do something or put something together |
| encyclopedia | a publication that gives information on various topics in alphabetical order |
| summary | a short version of what your read put into your own words |
| author's purpose | the reason why an author wrote what they wrote |
| audience | who reads what is written by the author |
| text organization | how the text is put on the page (with headings, captions, in sections or columns, etc) |
| heading | a bolded title for sections in a text which explains what each section is about |
| table of contents | a list at the beginning of a book which give chapter titles and page numbers |
| index | a list at the end of a book which gives subject names and page numbers alphabetically |
| bold | typed words on a page which look darker than other words |
| underline | typed words which have a line underneath them |
| italics | typed words which lean to the right side |
| diagram/table/chart/graph | may be found in informational text to give more information about the subject (numbers, statistics, etc) |
| photograph/illustration | a picture found in informational text which helps the reader understand the content of the text |
| fact | information which can be proven or checked |
| opinion | information which is based on someone's feelings or viewpoint & cannot be checked |
| glossary | a section in the back of a book which lists important words and their definitions |
| chronological order | written in the order in which things happened in time |
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