Author's Purpose & Central Idea
This is the reason an author writes a text.
What is author's purpose
The root bene- means this.
What is good or well?
This structure shows why something happens and what happens as a result.
What is cause and effect?
This is the lesson or message a story teaches.
What is theme?
A line that ends with punctuation is this.
What is an end-stopped line?
Correct this sentence: “He run fast.”
What is “He runs fast”?
An author writes a book about a panda who loves pizza. If the book is just funny and silly, what is the author’s purpose?
What is to entertain?
“Sam’s backpack was so heavy, he felt like he was carrying a baby elephant.”
What clue tells you “heavy” means VERY heavy?
What is comparing it to an elephant?
You read instructions titled: “How to Survive a Zombie Goldfish Attack.”
What text structure is this?
What is sequence or steps?
A story is about a penguin who lies and says he can fly. He gets caught because he falls off an iceberg.
What theme fits?
What is honesty is important?
“My dog is a fluffy potato with legs.”
What type of figurative language is this?
What is a metaphor?
Fix this sentence: “Me want cookies.”
What is “I want cookies”?
This means the most important idea in a paragraph or text.
What is a central idea?
A thicket is a place with many bushes close together. You can figure this out using—
What are context clues?
This structure lists steps in the order they happen.
What is sequence?
If a character lies and gets caught, the theme might be—
What is honesty is important? or What is cheating doesn’t work?
A line that continues into the next line without punctuation is this.
What is enjambment?
This pronoun adds emphasis, as in: “I did it ___.”
What is myself (an intensive pronoun)?
If an article explains how something works or describes information, this is the author’s purpose.
What is to inform or explain?
This synonym best replaces “feat”: achievement, trick, or stunt?
What is achievement?
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What is not you?
This is the hero of a story… unless the hero is a raccoon who steals tacos.
What is the protagonist?
Comparing two things using “is” is this.
What is a metaphor?
This word is correct when showing ownership: their, there, or they’re?
What is their?
You read a paragraph about why cats should be the rulers of the world. What is the author trying to do?
What is persuade?
If the sentence says, “My little brother zoomed across the room like a squirrel who drank too much soda,” what does zoomed mean?
What is move very fast?
A passage says: “7 out of 10 llamas prefer wearing sunglasses.”
What kind of evidence is that?
What are statistics?
A turtle keeps losing races because he never practices and only plays video games.
What is the theme?
What is practice matters?
OR
What is hard work pays off?
Which word makes the sentence funnier?
“The cow danced ___ across the barn.”
A) elegantly
B) clumsily
What is clumsily?
Choose the correct “there/their/they’re”:
“____ giving a banana to a confused duck.”
What is they’re?
This organizational pattern shows a problem and how it was fixed.
What is problem and solution?
Among assumed, guessed, presumed, and inferred, this word has the most positive connotation.
What is inferred?
This type of evidence is used when authors include specific examples.
What is examples (or illustrative details)?
The part of a story where a problem is solved is called the—
What is the resolution?
Words like “wallow,” “clumsy,” and “waddle” create this tone.
What is a humorous tone?
This combines ideas properly: “Because he was tired, ___.”
What is he went to sleep / he rested / etc.
This is why a new scientific idea may not be accepted right away.
What is people may not understand it yet or need more evidence?
When you use the words around a new word to figure out the meaning, you are using—
What are context clues?
These pieces of information support the central idea.
What is text evidence?
This detail best supports a theme.
What is the key moment that reveals the lesson?
These short lines may be used to emphasize a key word or idea.
What is line length for emphasis?
This term describes sentences that use “because” to join ideas.
What is a complex sentence?