Author's Purpose
This author’s purpose is to make the reader laugh or enjoy the text.
What is entertain?
The feeling or mood created by the author’s words.
What is tone?
A comparison that uses “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
A reference tool that helps you find words with similar meanings.
What is a thesaurus?
The step where you go back to the text to check your answer.
What is find evidence?
What is find evidence?
This author’s purpose tries to convince the reader to think or act a certain way.
What is persuade?
This word helps create a calm tone: peaceful.
What is word choice?
“The hallway was as loud as a buzzing beehive” compares noise to this.
What is a beehive?
This word means exact and clear.
What is precise?
What is precise?
This sentence stem helps justify answers: “I know this because…”
What is using evidence?
What is using evidence?
This clue helps you identify a persuasive text: “Students should…”
What is an opinion or call to action?
If a passage uses words like “thunderous” and “booming,” the tone is likely this.
What is loud or intense?
This explains what a simile means, not what it literally says.
What is figurative meaning?
A better replacement for the word “loud” in a noisy hallway passage.
What is thunderous?
What is thunderous?
A wrong answer that sounds right but is not supported by the text.
What is a distractor?
What is a distractor?
This author’s purpose fits a passage about a silly puppy splashing in mud.
What is entertain?
This word choice best supports a happy tone: gloomy or cheerful.
What is cheerful?
This simile helps readers picture a very noisy hallway.
What is “as loud as a buzzing beehive”?
This is why authors use a thesaurus.
What is to choose better word choices?
What is to choose better word choices?
This Prove It step helps compare answer choices.
What is find and compare?
What is find and compare?
This evidence best supports a persuasive purpose: “Students should clean up to stay safe.”
What is text evidence showing persuade?
To identify tone, readers should look closely at this.
What is the author’s word choice?
To explain a simile correctly, students must do this.
What is explain the meaning using text evidence?
Two words can be synonyms but only one fits because of this.
What is context?
What is context?
The strongest answers always include this.
What is text evidence?
What is text evidence?