8th Grade Nonfiction Study Guide

What is the purpose of summarizing and paraphrasing?

What records the author's exact words?

The reason a writer is writing something is called...

What signals the beginning of a topic or section?

What is a statement of someone's feeling or belief?

What is likely the author's main purpose in informational text?

Which type of nonfiction reads like fiction with characters and settings?

What type of nonfiction provides factual information and specific details?

Which of these is NOT a type of nonfiction?

What are design elements that highlight the structure of the text?

Which of these is NOT used to make a list?

Which type of nonfiction is the story "Robo-legs"?

Which of the following is NOT a graphic aid?

What is a fact expressed as a number?

What type of nonfiction is "Over the Top"?

What is it called when all of the information is restated in your own words?

Which is NOT one of the three ways to organize ideas?

Which of these is a type of statistic?

Which statement can be proved?

What kind of people, places, and events are in nonfiction?

Who writes biographies?

Which way to organize ends up with something that is shorter than the original text?

What do italics look like?

Which type of nonfiction involves asking questions?

Why do authors use italics and bold words?