1. What is Informational Text?

2. Types of Informational Text
• Textbooks
• Trade books
• Autobiographies and biographies
• Narrative nonfiction
• Newspapers
• Periodicals
• Magazines
• Reference materials including the internet

3. TEXT FEATURES…
help you understand what you are reading
more clearly.

4. Title …
tells you what the text will be about.

5. Heading…
identifies topics
throughout a
section of the
text.

6. Subheading…
identifies more specific information in the text

7. Font…
highlights key ideas or important words (bold, italics, CoLoR, underlining).

8. Bullets…
emphasize important ideas.

9. Captions…
help you understand a picture or photograph

10. GRAPHIC FEATURES…
help to represent
information in a
visual way.

11. Diagrams…
give you a more detailed view of information.

12. Charts…
summarize or compare information.

13. Graphs…
show how two or
more things are
related.

14. Maps…
show you where things are in the world.

15. Timelines…
help you understand the sequence of time.

16. Illustrations, pictures, & photographs
help you see how something looks or might have looked.

17. The arrangement of what you are reading.
TEXT ORGANIZATION
The arrangement of what you are reading.

18. Chronological…
A sequence of events or steps in a process are being described.
KEY WORDS: First, then, next, finally

19. Chronological…

20. Compare and Contrast …
Likenesses and differences are being presented or discussed
KEY WORDS: Similar, different, alike.

21. Compare and Contrast …

22. Cause and Effect/ Problem and Solution …
Evidence of cause(s) and effect(s) will be given OR problems and solutions will be described
KEY WORDS: Because of, due to, therefore, this explains why, since.

23. Cause and Effect/ Problem and Solution …

24. Description…
Uses sensory language (5 senses) to explain the main idea.

25. Description…