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Informational Text Flashcards

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The primary purpose of an informational text is to?

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Inform the reader about the natural or social world

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Informative texts appear where?

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in newspapers, textbooks, reference materials, and research papers

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Are informative texts fiction or non-fiction?

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Always non-fiction

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Informative texts: style of writing

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written cues, organization, graphics, and illustrations

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4 Different TYPES of Informative Texts

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literary nonfiction,
expository writing,
argumentative/persuasive writing
procedural writing

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instructs your audience on how to complete a specific task
(It falls into two categories, how to make something and how to do something.)

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Procedural Writing

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5 Basic Structures of Informational Texts

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Description
Problem and Solution
Compare and Contrast
Cause and Effect
Sequence

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Like an encyclopedia entry. What specific person, place, thing, or idea is being described?
Signal words: such as, for instance, in addition, also, specifically

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Description

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What is the problem and what is the solution?
Signal words: problem, issue, since, as a result, solution, idea, so, leads to, causes

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Problem & Solution

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When a text compares two or more ideas. What is being compared?
Signal words: similar, same, alike, both, as well as, unlike, as opposed to, on the other hand, in contrast, instead

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Compare & Contrast

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Compare - ?
Contrast - ?

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Compare - Similarities
Contrast - Differences

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What happened and why did it happen?
Signal words: since, because, if due to, as a result of, causes, leads to, consequently, then, therefore

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Cause & Effect

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Is this event taking place over time?
Signal words: first, second, third, then, next, before, after, finally, following

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Sequence

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Look for a topic, word, or phrase, and for synonyms.

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Description

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Look for the problem first, and then the solution.

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Problem & Solution

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How are they the same and how are they different?

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Compare & Contrast

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Remember, you are looking for a cause, not a solution.

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Cause & Effect

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Look. for steps or references to time such as dates.

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Sequence

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Tells how something was made or done in time order and with accuracy.

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Procedural Recount

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Features of a procedural recount?

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  • begins with a statement of what was made or done
  • tells what was made in order
  • written in the past tense
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Examples of procedural recounts?

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  • documentaries
  • retelling
  • a science experiment and its results
22
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retells an experience or an event that happened in the past

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Recount Text

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Purpose of a recount?

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can be to inform, entertain, or to reflect and evaluate (doesn’t sit exclusively in any specific writing genre)

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can focus on a specific section of an event or retell the entire story

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A Recount

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A recount should always be told in the order that things happened which is also referred to as a?

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Chronological order of events

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instructs your audience on how to complete a specific task

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Procedural Recount

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A procedural recount falls into two categories which are?

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how to make something and how to do something

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What are the Common Forms of Procedural Texts?

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Directions
Instructions
Recipes
Rules for games
Manuals
Agendas

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  • How do I get somewhere?
  • Very specific instructions including location names and titles.
  • Formal language is required and the addition of a map will make your instructions so much easier to understand.
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Directions

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  • How do I do something?
  • Your language must meet the needs of your audience and you may need to include a diagram if there are complex elements to complete.
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Instructions

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  • How do I cook something?
  • Recipes are a universal text.
  • There is a very clear expectation of the audience so never stray from the essentials.
  • Ingredients, method and a few visuals are essential.
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Recipes

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  • How do I play this?
  • Be conscious of your audience and write in a style and language they will understand.
  • You are required visuals in this style of writing.
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Rules for Games

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  • How do I operate this?
  • Are there any warnings I need to be aware of before proceeding?
  • Be very specific in your explanation.
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Manuals

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  • What are we doing?
  • When are we doing it?
  • Who is responsible?
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Agendas

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3 Parts in Writing a Procedural Recount

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  • Orientation
  • List of Events
  • Reorientation
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ANSWERS THE QUESTIONS:
WHY?
WHEN?
WHERE?
WHAT EXPERIENCE?

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Orientation

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IT PRESENTS EVENTS.
IT TELLS THE EVENT CHRONOLOGICALLY.
IT USES CONJUNCTIONS OR CONNECTIVES LIKE FIRST, NEXT, THEN, FINALLY, ETC.
IT SHOWS THE SEQUENCE OF EVENTS.
ANSWERS THE QUESTION: WHAT DID PEOPLE DO?

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List of Events

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IT DESCRIBES THE OUTCOME OF THE ACTIVITY.
IT EXPRESSES PEOPLE’S PERSONAL OPINION REGARDING EVENTS

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Reorientation

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Types of Recount

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Personal, Factual, Newspaper/Historical, Literary, and Procedural

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Recount Structure

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  • Title
  • Specific participants
  • Setting or Orientation (background information)
  • Events in CHRONOLOGICAL order
  • Concluding comments (personal opinion)
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TRUE OR FALSE
Recount writing is written in the past tense
(she yelled, it nipped, she walked)

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TRUE

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