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Reading and Informational Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Fact and Opinion | A facts a statement that can be proved true or false, an opinion express a personal belief or feeling. |
| Fallacious Reasoning | Fallacious Reasoning is a false reasoning |
| 5W-HOW? | The 5W are who? what? when? where? why? and how? |
| Generalization | 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 of create mental images, pictures in reader's mind. |
| Inference | An educated guess, conclusion that makes sense because it is supported by evidence. |
| Instructional Manuals | Tell you how to operate a specific device. |
| KWL Chart | Way to focus your reading and record what you learn. |
| Main Idea | The most important point or focus of passage. |
| Newspapers | Informational texts that present facts about current events. |
| Objective Writing | Objective writing sticks to the facts. |
| Outlining | informational text can help you identify main ideas and understand how they related to one another. |
| Predictions | Guessing what will happen next in a narrative text. |
| Propaganda | Organized attempt to influence a large audience of readers, listeners or watchers. |
| Purposes of texts | A purpose for a written text, to inform, to persuade, to express feelings or to entertain. |
| Reading Rate | The speed at which you read a text. |
| Retelling | A reading strategy that helps you identify and remember events that advance the plot of a story. |
| SQ3R | Abbreviation for reading and study strategy that takes place in five steps, survey, question, read, retell, review. |
| Signs | briefest informational texts you see. |
| Stereotyping | Referring to all members of a group as if they were all the same. |
| Subjective Writing | Writing that reveals and emphasize the writer's personal feelings and opinions. |
| Summarizing | resting the main ideas or major events in a text. |
| Text Structure | basic ways writers structure informational texts such as cause and effect chronological order and comarison and contrast |
| Textbooks | informational texts written to help students learn about a subject |
| Writer's Perspective | The way person looks at a subject. |
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