Audience
the intended target group for a message
Author's Craft
use of organizational patterns, text and graphic features, sentence structures, devices, and language to create written work
Author’s Purpose
the reason an author writes about a particular topic
(PIE: persuade,entertain, inform)
Central Idea
the main point of a piece of writing
Evidence
specific details or facts that support an idea
Genre
particular type, sort, or category
Graphic Feature
picture or other image within a text
Informational text
a text that gives information to explain, clarify, and/or educate
Inquiry
an act of searching for information about a topic
Key Ideas
important ideas throughout a work that support the central idea
Prefix
word part placed before a root word that changes the meaning of the word
Root
basic form of a word without any affixes
Suffix
word part placed after the root word that changes the meaning of the word
Summarize/Summary
reduce to a short statement of the main points of the text
Text/Print Feature
reduce to a short statement of the main points of the text