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Multi-Genres
Created by Tara Salisbury-Region 15
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Informational Text
Informational text written in order to:
explain or clarify information
Examples of informational text:
articles
essays
written instructions
procedural text
newspapers
Informational Activities
written by Melissa Stewart
Text Features
Text Structures
Cause and Effect: relationship of actions or events resulting in an effect
Description: identifying & explaining, characteristics, features, attributes
Problem and Solution: within the story, a chapter, or a section
Sequential Order: identify and describe items or events in a sequential order
Compare and Contrast (4th): between two or more events or concepts
Logical Order (5th): used in argumentative text to organize a claim in a specific sequence that makes sense to support the argument.
Order of Importance (5th): author indicates the ideas in a story from most important to least important & vise-versa