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Informational Terms
Reading and Informational Terms
Term | Definition |
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Anology | An analogy is a point-by-point comparison made between two things to show how they are alike. |
Argument | An argument is a position supported by evidence. |
Cause and Effect | A cause is the event that makes something happen. An effect is what happens as a result of the cause. |
Chronological Order | Chronological Order is when a writer puts events in sequence or order. |
Compare-and-Contrast Pattern | When you compare you look for similarities, or likenesses. When you contrast, you look for differences. |
Conclusions | A conclusion is a general summing up of the specific details in a text. |
Connotation and Denotation | The connotation of a word is all the feelings and associations that have come to be attached to the word. The denotation of a word is it's strict dictionary definition. |
Context Clues | When you don't know the meaning of a word, look for a clue to it's meaning in the context, the words and sentences sounding the unfamiliar word. |
Evidence | When you read informational and persuasive texts, you need to assess, or judge, the evidence that a writer uses to support a position. |
Bias | A leaning in favor of or against a person or issue is called a bias. |
Fact and Opinion | A fact is an statement that can be proven true. An opinion expresses a personal belief or feeling. |
Fallacious Reasoning | Fallacious Reasoning is false reasoning. |
5W-How | 5W-How is the questions who, what, when, where, why, and how. |
Generalization | A generalization is a broad statement that covers several particular situations. |
Graphic Features | Graphic features are design elements in a text. |
Images | Descriptive writing appeals to the senses to create mental images, pictures in the readers mind. |
Inference | An inference is an educated guess, a conclusion that makes sense because it's supported by evidence. |
Instructional Manuals | Instructional Manuals tell you how to operate a specific device, such as a VCR or a car. |
KWL Chart | Using a KWL Chart is a way to focus your reading and record what you learn. |
Main Idea | The most important point or focus of a passage is its main idea. |
Newspapers | Newspapers are informational texts that present facts about current events. |
Objective Writing | Objective Writing sticks to the facts. |
Outlining | Outlining an informational text can help you identify main ideas and understand how they are related to one another. |
Persuasion | Persuasion is the use of language or pictures to convince us to think or act in a certain way. |
Predictions | Guessing what will happen next in a narrative text is a reading skill called making predictions. |
Propaganda | Propaganda is and organized attempt to influence a large audience of readers, listeners, or TV watchers. |
Purposes of text | Texts are written for different purposes: to inform, to persuade, to express feeling, or to entertain. |
Reading Rate | The speed at which you read a text is your reading rate. |
Retelling | The reading strategy called retelling helps you identify and remember events that advance the plot of the story. |
SQ3R | The abbreviation SQ3R stands for a reading and study strategy that takes place in five steps: survey, question, read, retell, and review |
Signs | Signs are probably the briefest informational texts you see. |
Stereotyping | Referring to all members of a group as if they were all the same is called stereotyping. |
Subjective writing | Writing that reveals and emphasizes the writers personal feelings and opinions is called subjective. |
Summarizing | Restating the main ideas or major events of a text is called summarizing. |
Text Structures | There are some basic ways in which writers structure informational texts: cause and effect, chronological order, and comparison-and-contrast. |
Textbooks | Textbooks are informational texts written to help students learn about a subject. |
Writers perspective | Perspective is the way a person looks at a subject. |