Author's Purpose & Audience
The reason an author writes a text, such as to inform, entertain, or persuade?
What is author’s purpose?
What is the text structure that explains a topic by giving facts and details about it?
What is description?
What is the author’s attitude or feeling toward a topic, shown through word choice?
What is tone?
What is the sentence that tells the main idea of a paragraph?
What is the topic sentence?
What is a hint in the text that helps you figure out the meaning of a difficult or unknown word?
What is a context clue?
What is the group of people the author is writing for, like kids, parents, or teachers?
What is the audience?
What is the text structure that shows how two or more things are alike and different?
What is compare and contrast?
What is the point of view from which a story or text is told, such as first-person or third-person?
What is perspective?
What is the most important idea of the entire multi-paragraph text?
What is the main idea?
What is the type of context clue where the author gives a definition right in the sentence?
What is a definition clue?
What is the author’s purpose when the text gives facts, explanations, or information?
What is to inform?
What is the text structure that explains a problem and then gives one or more solutions?
What is problem and solution?
What is the type of writing that uses serious language, complete sentences, and no slang?
What is formal writing?
What are the facts, examples, or explanations that help explain the main idea?
What are supporting details?
What is the type of context clue where the author gives a word or phrase that means the opposite of the unknown word?
What is an antonym clue?
What is the author’s purpose when the text tries to make the reader agree or take action?
What is to persuade?
What is the text structure that explains why something happened and what happened as a result?
What is cause and effect?
What is the type of writing that sounds more casual, like talking to a friend, and may include contractions or slang?
What is informal writing?
What are the pieces of information that prove or back up the supporting details?
What are supporting facts or evidence?
What is the type of context clue where the author gives a word or phrase that means the same or almost the same as the unknown word?
What is a synonym clue?
What is the author’s purpose when the text tells a story or is meant to be fun to read?
What is to entertain?
What is the text structure that tells events in the order they happen, often using time words like “first,” “next,” and “finally”?
What is sequence?
What is the tone of a text that is meant to teach facts or explain information in a clear, serious way?
What is a serious or informative tone?
What is the ending that wraps up the text and reminds the reader of the main idea?
What is a sense of closure or conclusion?
What should you do if a word is tricky: look at the sentence, read around it, and use hints from the words nearby to figure out its meaning?
What is use context clues or infer meaning from context?