Informational text - Text that aims to teach the reader (Just Facts) , Craft - The tools authors use, Direct Address - When the author speaks directly to the reader, Rhetorical Questions - Questions the author asks in a text, Controlling idea - The main idea of the whole text, Introduction - The first chunk, includes the controlling idea/argument, Conclusion - The last chunk, restates the controlling idea/argument, Supporting details - Small facts that give more information, Statistics - Numbers, %, used as evidence, Quotes - Word for word what someone said, Footnotes - Extra info at the bottom of the page, Author's Purpose - Reason why the author wrote the text, Inference - A guess that requires evidence, Body paragraphs - Middle paragraphs, have supporting evidence in them, Audience - Who the passage was written for, who was intended to read it, Hook - The very first sentence/s in a passage, meant to get the reader's attention BEFORE the controlling idea/argument, Caption - Description of an image, graph, or chart, Organization - The order that the information is presented (compare/contrast, multiple examples, problem/solution, cause/effect, chronological/by time), Context - The words/sentences surrounding an unknown word that can give clues to its meaning, Topic Sentence - The main idea of a paragraph ,
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