1. Reading Informational Text

2. Informational Text
The purpose of Informational Text is to share information.
The information can be simple or complex.
Informational Text is everywhere !

3. Consumer Documents
Advertisements-tell you what is available to buy and how much it costs.
Schedules
Labels
Warranties
Contracts
Instruction Manuals
Technical Directions

4. Workplace Documents Documents you encounter on a job. Business letter
Application
Employment Contract
Work Permit
Tax & Insurance Forms
Employee Manual
Memorandums & Memos

5. Public Documents
One purpose-Supply citizens with information that may be of interest to them.
Can relate to schools, churches, government agencies, the courts, etc.
Typically most citizens get their public information from one source, NEWSPAPERS.

6. The Big Difference!! Fiction has a narrator to guide you.
Informational Text YOU are the narrator.

7. Tips for Reading Informational
Numbered steps- tell you what to do and in what order to do it.
Headings- Let you know a new topic is being introduced.
Boldface/italic words- Alert you to an important word or definition.

8. Tips for Reading Informational
Graphics- maps, charts, graphs, illustrations.
These graphics can contain important information!

9. Tips for Informational Text
Phrases such as on the other hand, by comparison, by contrast, or still others believe often introduce the opposite of what came before it.
Think-Comparison of items or ideas.

10. Tips for Informational Text
Phrases and words such as consequently, as a result, this results in, & therefore explain the effects of something.
Think- Cause & Effect

11. Technical Directions Also a type of informational text
Contain step-by-step instructions that explain how to accomplish a task.