All in a Day's Work: Animator

All in a Day’s Work: Animator is an expository non-fiction text about animators including information on the history of art, the history of animation, the process of creating an animated film, and an interview with an animator.

The text unfolds in third - person narrative in the form of a beginning chapter book including a table of contents, a glossary, an index, a bibliography, some suggested websites for further research, and information about the author.  Some text is in the form of a bulleted list. Information is presented by the main text, captioned photographs, illustrations, diagrams, timelines, tables, and text boxes that highlight definitions and interesting facts.

All in a Day’s Work: Animator varies in sentence length and structure with some use of procedural language. Some new terminology such as illustration, patented, and sound engineers are used in context. Sentences including phrases, clauses, or transition words are often used. A variety of declarative, imperative, exclamatory, and interrogative sentences are used within the text.

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