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Informative Writing Language Features

Read the passage, then answer each question. Choose all correct options where asked. Use clear, factual language in your own writing.

Read the passage

At the city zoo, Asian elephants live in a habitat with access to shade, water and space to move. Elephants are herbivores, so their diet includes plants such as grasses, leaves and fruit. Their trunks contain many muscles and help them breathe, smell, lift objects and gather food. During hot weather, elephants may spray water over their bodies. This behaviour can help cool their skin.

Identify language features

1.Which words in the passage are technical vocabulary? Select all that apply.

herbivores
habitat
shallow
muscles
fruit

2.Which description best matches the tone of the elephant passage?

Objective and informative
Personal and persuasive
Dramatic and suspenseful
Playful and imaginary

3.Which sentence gives a fact that could be checked?

Elephants are the most wonderful animals at the zoo.
An elephant’s trunk helps it smell and gather food.
I would love to feed an elephant.
Watching elephants is always exciting.

4.Why might an informative writer use a technical word such as “herbivore”?

It names a specific idea precisely.
It makes every sentence sound exciting.
It hides the meaning from the reader.
It replaces the need to give facts.

5.Match each technical word with its meaning.

habitat
herbivore
muscle
behaviour

an animal that eats plants
the way an animal acts
the natural home or living place of an organism
body tissue that can contract to help create movement

Use informative language

6.Complete both blanks with suitable technical vocabulary: “A kangaroo’s natural living place is its . A kangaroo eats plants, so it is a .”

7.Rewrite this opinion as an objective, factual sentence: “I think meerkats are the funniest animals in the zoo!”

8.Select every word that would suit an informative text about animals.

adaptation
brilliant
species
gross
temperature
fantastic

9.Write two or three objective, informative sentences about the water cycle. Include at least two technical terms, such as evaporation, condensation or precipitation.

10.Explain one way factual language helps a reader of an informative text.

11.How can precise technical vocabulary help a reader understand information about animals?