INFORMATIONAL TEXTS

Master informational texts! Learn about text structures, types, and summarizing. Perfect for 7th grade ELA.

Fill in the blanks with the words from the word bank. Informational texts are texts that present information in order to explain, clarify, and or educate. Summarize to reduce large sections of text to their main idea and their essential supporting details to restate the meaning of something in different words; paraphrasing changes the exact wording of a text without evaluation or interpretation a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer the patterns authors construct as they organize their ideas and provide supporting details Sequence describes an event or occurrence and the resulting changes that happen because of it gives step by step directions on a task shows how two or more things are alike and different describes an issue and gives at least one way to solve it Keywords for descriptive text structure First, finally, next, last, later, after As a result, this causes, one effect, consequently, because, since, due to For example, characteristics are, featuring, such as, including Issue, this solves, proposed solution, one problem, a solution is Types of Informational Texts To mark a word click its first letter then click its last. ENCYCLOPEDIA INFOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY NEWSPAPER TEXTBOOK BROCHURE DOCUMENT MANUAL