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Vocabulary
- Informative text
- Explanatory text
- Organized structure
- Formal style
- Point of view
- Clear purpose
- Credible evidence
- Technical word meaning
Knowledge
- Informative or explanatory text is a piece of writing that provides factual information that was gathered from multiple credible research sources.
- Informative or explanatory text begins by clearly focusing on the topic, providing credible evidence, and ends with a conclusion.
- Informative or explanatory writing should include academic, content-specific technical word meanings.
Skills
- Gather credible information from multiple sources.
- Write an informative or explanatory text with an organized structure and formal style that includes a focused point of view, clear purpose, credible evidence, and technical vocabulary words.
Understanding
- Informative or explanatory writing follows a predictable text structure that includes a focused point of view, credible evidence, and ends with a conclusion.
- They must gather their facts about the topic from multiple credible research sources.
- Writers elaborate details included in the text by using formal academic, content-specific technical words.
