Informational Text
1.) What is informational text?
Informational text is Non-Fiction Text that happened in real life but with evidence.
2.) How is informational text different from literature or literary
text? Compare/Contrast informational text to literary text - Provide an
example in your compare/contrast diagram, paragraph, etc. (your
choice)
Informational Text is different from literary text because informational talks about facts and literary text talks about fiction.
3.) What are text
features?
Text features are used to make attention of to inform someone about a special thing in the book.
4.) Skim
through "Phineas Gage" and identify the text features reviewed in class and
included in this informational text. Use the listed features to help you
identify them in the text. Once you have identified the features in the
text note the page number. In addition, provide an explanation/purpose of
the feature and how it helps the reader. NOTE: Not all features
reviewed in class are included in "Phineas Gage." In this case, define the
purpose of the feature, no page numbers are
necessary.
Informational text is Non-Fiction Text that happened in real life but with evidence.
2.) How is informational text different from literature or literary
text? Compare/Contrast informational text to literary text - Provide an
example in your compare/contrast diagram, paragraph, etc. (your
choice)
Informational Text is different from literary text because informational talks about facts and literary text talks about fiction.
3.) What are text
features?
Text features are used to make attention of to inform someone about a special thing in the book.
4.) Skim
through "Phineas Gage" and identify the text features reviewed in class and
included in this informational text. Use the listed features to help you
identify them in the text. Once you have identified the features in the
text note the page number. In addition, provide an explanation/purpose of
the feature and how it helps the reader. NOTE: Not all features
reviewed in class are included in "Phineas Gage." In this case, define the
purpose of the feature, no page numbers are
necessary.
An example has been provided for you.
- Guide Words- (Pages 6,10, 60) points you to a specific word in the section.
- Title Page- (Pages 1-3) Title pages tell you the book, the author, and the company who published the book.
- Table of
Contents- N/A Table of Contents show you all the chapters in the book. - Index- (Pages 82-86) Tells you what page a important word is on.
- Glossary- (Pages 76-77) Tells you the definition of a word you don't understand.
- Heading,
subheading- (Page 1) A heading tells you the chapter title and what the chapter is going to be about. A Subheading tells you what the paragraph is going to be about - Keywords- N/A Help you understand the paragraph better.
- Photographs/Illustrations - Page 16-17, etc. - Helps
the reader understand something by looking at it from the inside. Gives
the reader an image to support the information provided in the text.
- Captions- (Page 57, 153) Captions tell you about a picture in a book.
- Diagrams- (Page 75) drawings or illustrations in a book.
- Labels- (Page 75) Tells you what something is in a diagram.
- Text box- N/A Tells you an important definition on something.
- Map- N/A Tells you where something is.
- Special Print (bold,
italics, highlighted text)- N/A Tells you that something is important.