This is the acronym to remember the types of author's purpose.
PIEED
A ___________ is about a person's life.
What is biography?
What are the 5 types of author's purpose?
What is persuade, inform, entertain, explain, and describe?
This text feature explains what a picture is about.
What is a caption?
This is the order you should go when tackling paired passages.
Passage 1, Questions to Passage 1, Passage 2, Questions to Passage 2, Questions about both.
This text feature organizes the text and tells what each section is about.
What is a heading?
An ______ is something that cannot be proven and is not true for everyone.
What is opinion?
USUALLY the author's purpose for writing fiction.
What is to entertain?
True or False: Charts and graphs are not important to the reader and can be skipped over.
What is FALSE?
What is up to 4 words?
The author's purpose of a newspaper article detailing the dangers of playing video games all day is _______________.
What is to inform?
This type of poem is like a song.
What is lyrical?
These are the different ways an author may organize their text.
What is cause and effect, compare and contrast, problem and solution, and sequence?
The answer is not exactly typed out in the passage. You must use text evidence and background knowledge to find the right answer.
What is inferencing?