Author's Craft & Purpose
What is author’s purpose?
Answer: The reason the author wrote the text
What is setting?
Answer: Where and when the story takes place.
What is theme?
Answer: The lesson or message of the story
What is cause and effect?
Answer: One event causes another to happen
What are the four genres?
Nonfiction, fiction, poetry, drama
What are the 3 main author’s purposes?
Answer: Persuade, Inform, Entertain
What are character traits?
Answer: Words that describe a character
What is a plot diagram?
Answer: Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution
What is compare and contrast?
Answer: Shows how things are alike and different
What is a prefix and a suffix?
a word added to the beginning of a word and to the end of a word.
What is point of view?
Answer: Who is telling the story
What is plot?
The events in a story
Read the paragraph:
Jalen missed the final shot and felt like giving up. The next day, he returned to practice early and worked harder than before. By the end of the season, he helped his team win an important game.
What is the BEST theme of this passage?
A. Jalen plays basketball
B. Practice is part of sports
C. Hard work can lead to success
D. Jalen missed an important shot
C. hard work can lead to success
What structure shows a conflict and how it's resolved?
Answer: Problem & solution
What is a simile?
What is personification?
What is imagery?
Comparing two things using like or as
comparing a human trait to an object
words used to describe an image using your 5 senses
First person point of view uses what words?
Answer: I, me, we
What is internal conflict?
Answer: A problem inside a character (feelings/thoughts)
Where should you questions about plot structure?
Answer: Fictional or Drama passage
What signal word shows cause/effect?
Answer: Because, therefore, as a result
What is an inference?
Answer: A conclusion based on evidence and thinking
Students confused author’s purpose with main idea. What’s the difference?
Answer:
Purpose = why the author wrote;
Main idea = what the text is about
What is external conflict?
Answer: A problem between a character and something else (person, nature, etc.)
Read the passage:
At the beginning of the year, Elena refused to work with her classmates because she believed she could do everything better on her own. During a group project, she struggled to complete all the work by herself. After listening to her teammates’ ideas and sharing responsibilities, the group earned the highest score in the class. By the end of the project, Elena chose to work with others instead of alone.
What is the BEST theme of this passage?
A. Elena worked on a group project at school
B. Working with others can lead to better results
C. Elena completed a difficult assignment
D. Group projects can be challenging
B. Working with others can lead to better results
Read the paragraph:
Many neighborhoods experienced flooding after several days of heavy rain. As a result, roads were closed and families had to leave their homes. To prevent future flooding, the city plans to improve drainage systems and build stronger barriers.
What text structure is used in this paragraph?
A. Cause and effect
B. Problem and solution
C. Compare and contrast
D. Sequence
B
Read the paragraph:
Liam looked out the window as the storm grew stronger. He wondered if the game would be canceled, but his sister Maya felt excited about the thunder. She thought it made the night more interesting.
What is the point of view in this passage?
A. 1st person
B. 2nd person
C. 3rd person
C. 3rd person