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Understanding Informational Text: Purpose, Structure, and Active Reading Strategies

This text provides a comprehensive overview of the genre of informational text, focusing on the author's purpose and the reader's engagement strategies. It covers essential steps for active reading, such as previewing, questioning, summarizing, and reviewing. Key features of informational texts are highlighted, including headings, visuals, and navigational tools that aid comprehension. Additionally, various types of informational texts—such as textbooks, encyclopedias, and how-to guides—are discussed, along with their organizational structures, enhancing readers' understanding of how to extract useful information effectively.

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Understanding Informational Text: Purpose, Structure, and Active Reading Strategies

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  1. Informational text

  2. Review What major genre would informational text fall under?

  3. Author’s purpose for writing • To convey information

  4. Reader’s purpose for reading • Because my teacher said so!!! NO!!! • To gain information … YES!!!

  5. When you open a textbook to read for information, what do you do? • Previewing – • any questions, review any questions at the end of the chapter/section – read first so you know what the focus of the chapter • Previewing vocab, questions • Preview a chapter • Tell me what the chapter is about • Tell me some of the vocab words

  6. When you open a textbook to read for information, what do you do? • Read the chapter

  7. When you open a textbook to read for information, what do you do? • Summarize • Whether on paper or in your own mind, summarize what you’ve read • Can you answer the questions? • Go over it again - review • Summarize on paper

  8. When you open a textbook to read for information, what do you do? • Review • Do you understand what you have read? • Do you need to go back and reread a part, all, etc?

  9. Your turn … • Can you list the steps of how to read an informational text? • Preview • Question • Summarize • Review

  10. Characteristics of informational text • Features – headings, subheadings, realistic photos with labels and captions • Navigational tools – indexes, table of contents • Various graphical devices – tables, charts, diagrams

  11. Would the following be informational text? • Posters • Pamphlets

  12. What types of books would be considered informational text? • Textbooks • Encyclopedias • Dictionaries • “how-to” books • Field guides • “all about” books

  13. Don’t forget about these • Books • Magazines • Pamphlets • Newspapers • Posters • Web sites

  14. Organizational structure • Chronological … SS … history • Logical order … think about science / math books • Topical … religion … art … building/architecture

  15. How does organizational structure help the reader? • Which book would you use if I said find info on... • Pyramids • A WWII battle • Dogs • A mathematician

  16. Activity … • Choose a topic • Example … car or panda bear • Write a short intro as if you were writing a story about that topic • Now, with the same topic, write a piece of informational text about the topic • Discuss • What was your purpose? • What was the reader’s purpose? … why would readers read one v. the other? • What did you do different? • Heading • Subheading • Pictures with captions • Etc

  17. The end!

  18. Quiz time!

  19. What are the four steps of being an active reader? What is the author’s purpose of writing a piece of informational text? What is the reader’s purpose for reading a piece of informational text? What is involved in previewing a chapter? When do you ask questions about the chapter? List 3 examples of informational text. List 2 examples of literature that would not be informational text. What genre would informational text fall under? Give 3 characteristics of a piece of informational text. List 1 type of organizational structure of informational text.

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