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2. Get out a pencil or pen to take notes.
You may also get out a highlighter or colored pencils or pens.

3. Informational and Expository Text

4. Informative and Explanatory Text
The terms informative and explanatory writing can be used interchangeably.
Informative writing is nonfiction writing about a topic that provides facts and information.
Informative and Explanatory Text

5. The purpose of informative writing is to inform or explain something to the readers and increase their knowledge.
Through informative writing, you can:
Provide new knowledge
Explain a process
Provide an explanation of why
AND MORE!
Purpose

6. Informative vs. Argument Writing
Informative Writing
Includes facts and information
The purpose is to inform the audience
Maintains an objective tone about the topic
Informative vs. Argument Writing
Argument Writing
Includes facts and information
The purpose is to convince the audience
Maintains a subjective tone about the topic

7. Informative vs. Narrative Writing
Informative Writing
Nonfiction writing
The purpose is to inform the audience
Informative vs. Narrative Writing
Narrative Writing
Fiction writing
The purpose is to entertain the audience

8. Where is Informational Writing found?
Informational writing can be found many places including textbooks, encyclopedias, newspapers, magazines, websites, instructions, guides, summaries, and reference books.
Where is Informational Writing found?

9. The main purpose of expository text is to inform or describe. 
Authors who write expository texts research the topic to gain information. 
Expository Text

10. The information is organized in a logical and interesting manner using various expository text structures. 
Structure

11. The most common expository text structures include:
description
enumerative or listing
sequence
comparison and contrast
cause and effect
problem and solution
Types of Literature

12. Description and Enumerative
includes main idea and detail
Enumerative or listing
includes listing connected information, outlining a series of steps, or placing ideas in a hierarchy
Description and Enumerative

13. Sequence and Comparison
includes a series of events leading up to a conclusion
Comparison and contrast
describing how two or more events, places, characters, or other ideas are similar and/or different in several ways
Sequence and Comparison

14. Cause/Effect and Problem/Solution
Cause and effect
involve several reasons why an event occurred, or several effects from on cause, and of course, as single cause/effects situation
Problem and solution
identify the problem, give possible solutions with possible results and finally, the solution that was chosen
Cause/Effect and Problem/Solution

15. Active Reading Strategies for Informational and Expository Text
Annotating Text
Active Reading Strategies for Informational and Expository Text
Making deeper connections
Taking notes
Reading for meaning

16. you have ever read an entire paragraph, passage, or page only to realize that you have absolutely no clue what you just read.
Raise your hand if…

17. STOP WASTING TIME WITH MINDLESS READING!
Annotating a text will help you not only remember what you read, but understand and connect with the text.
A LOT!!!
It happens…

18. Read with your pencil What is Annotating?
Annotation is the ACT of making a note in ANY form while reading
What is Annotating?
Read with your pencil

19. Annotation is NOT… Highlighting without a purpose
Underlining or highlighting the majority of the text
Drawing symbols without writing notes

20. The majority of reading is just skimming, this is NOT helpful when reading for understanding.
Annotating a Text:
slows the reader down
promotes active reading
improves reading and writing
allows the reader to make deeper connections
Why Do We Annotate?
Don’t miss important details!
Prevent mindless reading!

21. What Will I Need? Annotation tools: Pencil Colored pens (optional)
Highlighter (optional)
Post-it notes (optional)
Annotation Guide
Your own copy of the text!
What Will I Need?

22. Annotation Guide Guide Symbol ? ! circle
Powerful words and phrases (WRITE AND EXPLAIN WHY THEY ARE POWERFUL)
underline
Words or phrases you do not understand. Try to use context clues in the text to help you write a definition in the margins (GO BACK AND DEFINE THE WORDS) ?
Place a question mark next to text that raises questions (EXPLAIN WHY IT MADE YOU QUESTION THE TEXT. WRITE ANY CONNECTIONS OR INFERENCES YOU MAKE) !
Place an exclamation point next to ideas that surprise you (EXPLAIN WHY IT SUPRSED YOU)
Draw arrows when you make a connection to the text, ideas, or experiences (WRITE THE CONNECTIONS DOWN. EXPLAIN WHAT IT MEANS) EX
Write “EX” next to the author’s examples (EXPLAIN THE EXAMPLE AND HOW IT HELPS THE AUTHOR PROVIE HIS/HER ARGUMENT)
1, 2, 3
Number the author’s arguments, key details, and important ideas (EXPLAIN THE ARGUMENTS. IDENTIFY WHICH ARGUMENT/DETAIL IS THE STRONGEST)
WRITE
Write important thoughts and connection in the margins
Write questions you have about the reading in the margins
Annotation Guide

23. 1. Preview the text (look ahead, briefly skim, read headlines, sub headlines, and picture captions, and look at pictures).
Steps to Annotate Text

24. 2. Read a brief portion of the text
2. Read a brief portion of the text. Depending on the length, a couple paragraphs is a good starting place.
Steps to Annotate Text

25. 3. Go back over the text you just read, and use the annotation guide to help you make notes on the text.
Steps to Annotate Text

26. 4. Check and see if your annotations make sense
4. Check and see if your annotations make sense. Are you adding new text to the margins or just rewriting it? Use your own words as much as possible. Make sure you write notes to accompany your symbols.
Steps to Annotate Text

27. 5. Repeat steps 2-4. Read another small chunk of text and annotate it
5. Repeat steps 2-4. Read another small chunk of text and annotate it. Then, make sure that all of the annotated marks make sense.
Steps to Annotate Text

28. The Gettysburg Address
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Practice
The Gettysburg Address
By: President Abraham Lincoln
Use the symbols from the previous slide to annotate President Abraham Lincoln’s famous, “Gettysburg Address.”

29. Practice Step 1: Preview the Text
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Practice
Step 1: Preview the Text

30. Step 2-3 : Read a brief portion of the text and annotate.
What does four score and seven years ago mean?
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Practice
Step 2-3 : Read a brief portion of the text and annotate.
Def: a statement of opinion

31. Step 4: Check to see if your annotations make sense.
What does four score and seven years ago mean?
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Practice
Step 4: Check to see if your annotations make sense.
Def: a statement of opinion

32. Step 4: Check to see if your annotations make sense.
What does four score and seven years ago mean?
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Practice
Step 4: Check to see if your annotations make sense.
Def: a statement of opinion
What word does this definition belong to?
I noticed a mistake… Do you see it? What is it?

33. Step 5: Repeat steps 2-4. Read and annotate more.
What does four score and seven years ago mean?
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Practice
Def: a statement of opinion
Step 5: Repeat steps Read and annotate more.

34. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Practice
repetition
Time period
Use the symbols from the previous slide to annotate President Abraham Lincoln’s famous, “Gettysburg Address.”
Purpose of text
Do what?

35. The Gettysburg Address
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
The Gettysburg Address
Now finish annotating the rest of The Gettysburg Address.

36. Informational Text Breakdown
With each informational or expository article that we do, you will complete an Informational Text Breakdown worksheet while you read and annotate the article.
Informational Text Breakdown

37. Informational Text Breakdown1.
Informational Text Breakdown 3.
The worksheet has the following categories that you will complete in the following order:
1. Name, Date, Title and Author
2. Text Feature Scavenger Hunt
3. A Preview of the text
4. Big Idea
5. Author's Purpose
6. Vocabulary
7. A Reflection 2. 4. 5. 7. 6.