Informational Text Analysis Flashcards
Grade 7 · English · Flashcards
Review essential vocabulary and concepts for reading and analyzing nonfiction informational texts.
Flashcards
- Informational Text
- A nonfiction text written to inform, explain, describe, or persuade using facts and real-world information.
- Author's Purpose
- The reason an author writes a piece — commonly to inform, persuade, entertain, or explain.
- Central Idea
- The most important point an author makes in a nonfiction text, supported by details throughout.
- Supporting Detail
- A fact, example, statistic, or quote that develops and supports the central idea.
- Text Structure
- The organizational pattern of a text such as cause/effect, compare/contrast, or chronological order.
- Cause and Effect
- A text structure showing how one event or condition leads to another outcome.
- Compare and Contrast
- A text structure that examines the similarities and differences between two or more subjects.
- Problem and Solution
- A text structure that identifies a challenge and describes one or more ways to resolve it.
- Inference
- A conclusion reached by combining text evidence with the reader's prior knowledge and reasoning.
- Credibility
- The quality of being trustworthy and reliable; a credible source has expertise and no strong bias.
- Bias
- A tendency to favor one perspective, which may cause an author to present information unfairly.
- Text Features
- Non-prose elements like headings, graphs, maps, captions, and sidebars that support comprehension.
- Paraphrase
- To restate an idea from a text in your own words while preserving the original meaning.
- Fact
- A statement that can be verified and proven true or false using evidence.
- Opinion
- A personal belief or judgment that cannot be proven true or false.
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