Reading Informational Text

Determine technical word meanings

How author's purpose is conveyed

Analyze multiple accounts of the same event/topic

Unknown words in informational text

Understand how the author and illustrator present information

Analyze first and secondhand accounts of historical events

Compare and contrast firsthand and secondhand accounts

Comparing text structures: Compare/ contrast & cause/ effect

Comparing text structures: Chronology & Problem/ Solution

Domain-specific words/phrases: geometry and angles

Distinguish your own point of view from the author's

Use search tools to locate relevant information

Determine the meaning of words/phrases

Use text features to locate information efficiently

Information from illustrations/pictures and from words

Text structures

Parts of a book

Text features: Headings

Informational text features

Text features: Glossaries

Text features: Table of contents

Author's purpose

Nonfiction text features