Authors Purpose and Text Structure (bell work)

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What is the author's purpose in the story about Angel trying out for the basketball team?

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to tell a story about a boy who worked hard

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What is the author's purpose in the passage: "What you learn in school will help you later in life. It will also help you get a job. If you work hard in school and make good grades, you may be able to go to college and have a career." Options: to entertain with a story about school, to teach you how to get good grades, to suggest that you should work hard in school, to explain the best colleges

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to suggest that you should work hard in school

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What is the author's purpose in describing spiders?

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To describe characteristics of a spider.

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What is the author's purpose in the story about Yareli's first visit to the circus?

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to entertain you with a story about a girl who enjoyed the circus

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What is the author's purpose in the passage about Abraham Lincoln?

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The author's purpose is to tell you all about president Abraham Lincoln and his greatest achievement.

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To infer is to

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prove an answer with background knowledge and text evidence

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the order that things happen; sequence

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chronological order

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A few sentences that state the main points or events from the entire passage. Something from beginning, middle, and end. No minor details are given in a ...

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summary

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What is the central idea of the passage about soccer?

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Soccer is a worldwide sport.

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What is the central idea of a story?

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What the story is mostly about.