Reading Informational and Graphic Texts: Unit Review

Ideas, language, structure, knowledge demands.

It extends, tests or contrasts with the core text.

Search (scan), using headings or the index.

Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion.

Abstract → end of introduction → figures → discussion and limitations → methods.

That the findings are true or final.

Sample: Later start times linked to higher test scores in one study, researchers suggest.

Four; sentence 3 states the purpose (in order to...).

Swapping synonyms into a source's sentence structure; not a real paraphrase.

Asking whether removing a sentence would collapse the argument; if not, it is a supporting detail.

That the team hosted it before.

Distancing (signals doubt).

Stated → implied → inference → confidence.

Contradicts says the opposite; complicates adds a factor without denying the claim.

Sources in rows, sub-questions in columns.

It states something no single source says, built from tensions and gaps among them.

Each part's function in the whole text.

Examples or evidence first, thesis near the end.

An opening image or story that returns at the end, often changed.

Valid but not sound (false premise).

Begging the question (circular).

Concluding a claim is false because it was argued badly.

Moving the goalposts.

Relative: 6 ÷ 4 = 1.5, 50% higher. Absolute: +2 per 100.

A third factor linked to both the supposed cause and the effect.

Stop; Investigate the source; Find better coverage; Trace claims to the original.

Sample: The council made mistakes.

Any two: power and economics; gender; colonialism and Indigenous perspectives; environment.

As connected to systems (education far from home, history, investigation practices), centring each student and their family's voices.

Deliberative.

The paragraph in a feature that states why the story matters.

It is published for the public, so readers become witnesses.

Polysyndeton.

Periodic.

Sample: Some employees will be laid off.

200 ÷ 40,000 × 1,000 = 5.0.

No: ranges 45–51 and 42–48 overlap.

Multiplying by 10 (or another fixed factor).

One in which the reader must combine words and picture to get the meaning.

Whether it is signalled as reconstructed and sourced.

The speech is translated.

Unlikely to be due to chance alone.

bio (life) + divers (different) + -ity (state of): variety of life.

The policy remains (in place).

Plan, monitor, fix up, evaluate.

How closely your confidence matches your actual understanding.

Sample: For my next four articles, I will write a précis within a day and compare it with a classmate's.