Reading
FICTION
NONFICTION
Description:
- Sensory and descriptive details help readers visualize information. It shares the who, what, where, when, why, and how of a topic/subject.
- Sequence of Events: Chronological texts present events in a sequence from beginning to end.
- How-To: How-To texts organize the information in a series of directions.
- Authors use comparisons to describe ideas to readers. Similarities and differences are shared.
- Informational texts often describe cause and effect relationships. The text describes events and identifies reasons (causes) for why the event happened.
- The text introduces and describes a problem and presents one or more solutions.