Author's Craft
The reason an author writes about a particular topic and includes particular details in their writing.
What is Author's Purpose?
The way two or more things are connected. This could be people, places, or things.
What is a Relationship?
Words used by an author to help readers create mental images.
What is Imagery?
A person or thing who plays a role in a book, play, or movie
What is a Character?
The main point in a piece of writing.
What is the Central Idea?
What the author is trying to convey (say) to the reader throughout their writing.
What is the Author's Message?
This group of features include the Title, Subtitle, and/or Subheading.
What is a Text Feature?
When an author says something but means something else. Usually in a simile, metaphor, idiom or hyperbole.
What is Figurative Language?
The sequence of events in a story.
What is Plot?
A piece of writing that is usually nonfiction and is published in a magazine, newspaper, or online.
What is an Article?
This genre includes characters, plot, and setting.
What is Fiction?
This group of features include Computer Graphics, Diagrams, Tables, Graphs, and Illustrations.
What is a Graphic Feature?
To form a picture of someone or something in your mind.
What is Visualize?
The problem in the story that is important to the plot.
What is Conflict?
Specific details or facts that support an inference or idea.
What s Evidence?
When the author is trying to get you to agree with them or their opinion.
What is Persuade?
An explanation under a photograph or illustration to help the reader understand what they are seeing in it.
What is a Caption?
These help one define unknown words. They can be directly after the word, within the same sentence, or around the sentence.
What is Context Clues?
A time and place in which a story takes place.
What is Setting?
The pattern an author uses to organize ideas in a piece of writing.
What is Organizational Pattern?
This genre helps one to gain information.
What is Non-Fiction?
An explanation for an action or event.
What is Reason?
To bring what you already know and what you have learned in a text.
What is Inference?
A solution to a conflict.
What is a Resolution?
To mention an idea or action for other people to consider.
What is Suggest?