Author's Purpose Vocabulary Practice

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Main idea/Central idea

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The most important idea about the topic that a writer or speaker conveys; can be the central idea of an entire work or just a paragraph.

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Supporting details

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Small parts of a whole; specific information about the main idea.

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Author’s Purpose

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The reason or reasons an author has for writing a selection, such as to explain, to entertain, to inform, to persuade.

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Author’s Purpose to Persuade

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Trying to make the reader believe a certain way, to influence.

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Author’s Purpose to Inform

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A story or article that gives information or news.

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Author’s Purpose to Entertain

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A story or article that you might read for fun, such as a narrative.

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Author’s Purpose to Explain

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Giving directions on how to do something or why something happened.

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Summary

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Briefly restates the main idea and important details.

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Paraphrase

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To put something written or spoken by someone else into your own words.

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Making predictions

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Trying to guess what will happen next in the story.