Author's Purpose
A booklet containing the school rules and the consequence for violating those rules is this kind of author's purpose.
What is to inform?
This type of text feature shows locations such as where a country or town is.
What is a map?
Plankton is always snitching us out to the teacher. He's like a rat is an example of ...
What is a simile?
This part of RACE answers the question.
What is answer?
This writing convention tells the reader to stop during their reading.
What is a period?
An article where the author argues that an iPhone is better than an Android phone is this type of author's purpose.
What is to persuade?
This type of text feature provides context and explanation for images and photographs.
What is a caption?
This type of figurative language compares two unlike things WITHOUT using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
This part of RACE uses a quote to back up a claim.
What is cite evidence?
This writing convention tells the reader to pause for a moment before continuing with a sentence.
What is a comma?
A speech written by a professional athlete listing the negative effects of steroids and urging young athletes to not use steroids is this type of author's purpose.
What is to persuade?
This type of text features highlights important words or phrases to drawn the reader in. These words are darker than the rest.
What is bold text?
I love to watch the leaves dance in the fall wind is an example of...
What is personification?
This part of RACE gives further detail and elaborates on the topic.
What is explain?
This writing convention indicates that the writer has quoted from another piece of writing.
What is a Quotation?
A story about a young athlete who takes steroids and his life and future fall apart as a result is this type of author's purpose.
What is to entertain?
This text feature helps the reader visualize and organize information utilizing labels.
What is a diagram?
This type of figurative language uses extreme over exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
This part of RACE turns the question or prompt into a statement.
What is restate?
This writing convention helps readers identify proper nouns, titles and the beginning of a sentence.
What is capitalization?
A section in a history book describing the conditions- and causes of the Great Depression in the Midwest in the 1930s is an example of this type of author's purpose.
This text feature involves the usage of images taken by a camera.
What is a photograph?
It's going to be impossible to find your phone in the lake. It'll be like finding a needle in a haystack. This an an example of...
What is an idiom?
This part of RACE includes sentence starters such as "Therefore," "All in all," and "In summary."
What is summarize?
If you are known to have good spelling, you are known to have good...
What is grammar?