INFORMATIONAL (NONFICTION)
Within the Text
Beyond the Text
About the Text
What is the sub-genre of this text?
Provide a minimum of 3 pieces of evidence
to support your thinking.
What kind of information did you already know
that helped you as you read this text? How
did having this prior knowledge help you?
Provide a minimum of 3 specific examples.
Select a sentence from the text that
particularly interested you. Write the
sentence and page # and describe in detail
what you liked about it.
From what perspective is this text told:
first, second, or third person? Explain how
you know and provide at minimum of 2
specific examples.
What kind of people would be interested in
reading this text? Explain your thinking.
Provide a minimum of 2 specific examples.
Select a paragraph from the book that you
found particularly descriptive. Write down the
page # and a minimum of 3 uses of descriptive
language from that paragraph. Explain how the
author’s descriptive language helped you as a
reader. Be specific.
What was the main topic of this text?
Explain how you know this was the main idea
by giving a minimum of two specific
examples.
How did this text make you feel? Provide a
minimum of 3 specific pieces of evidence to
support your thinking.
Describe in detail a minimum of four different
nonfiction text features that the author used.
Explain how these features helped you as a
reader.
What is the author’s message of the text?
Provide a minimum of 3 pieces of evidence
to support your thinking. (Author’s message
is different from the main topic in that it
has a little more detail and sometimes an
opinion in it.)
Briefly describe what kind of information was
provided by this text. Then write about the
type of information about the same subject
that was not provided. What would have been
a good way for the author to present that
information? For example: a chart, fun facts,
glossary, another sub-section…? Explain why
you feel this would be helpful to the reader.
Write about three places in the text in which
the author was clearly expressing an opinion
about the topic. How do you know these were
opinion statements? Provide the page # of the
3 places.
Describe 3 different times in the text in
which you had a strong reaction. What was
the text about and what was your reaction?
Be specific in describing your reactions.
What are three deep questions you still have
after reading this text? These questions
cannot be yes or no responses..
Describe three different examples of
figurative language used by the author. Write
the page number of each, what type of
figurative language, the words the author used.
What was some of the new information you
learned from this text? Why is this
information important? Provide a minimum
of 3 examples.
Rate this book on a scale of 1 - 5, with 1 being
“It was lousy” to 5 being “It was awesome!”.
Provide a minimum of three pieces of specific
evidence to support your evaluation.
Identify two different words you did not know.
For each word, write the word, the page
number, and the sentence it was in. Then try to
decode each word. Tell whether you used
context, schema, morphemes or all three.