NeSA Reading Review

Author's Purpose: to give you facts and information about a topic

• entertain
• inform
• explain
• persuade

Author's Purpose: to make you think, feel, or do something.  They also want you to agree with their opinion

• persuade
• explain
• entertain
• inform

Author's Purpose: to provide enjoyment for the reader

• entertain
• inform
• explain
• persuade

Author's Purpose: to use lots of details and imagery to describe a story

• explain
• entertain
• persuade
• inform

Reading Genre: a story that could have actually happened to people or animals in a believable setting

• realistic fiction
• historical fiction
• tall tale
• science fiction

Reading Genre: a story that is made up, but takes place during a certain time period or moment in history

• historical fiction
• realistic fiction
• science fiction
• fantasy

Reading Genre: a story about magical and imaginary beings and lands

• fairytale
• tall tale
• science fiction
• historical fiction

Reading Genre: story that uses futuristic science or technology, often set in space or with time travel

• science fiction
• realistic fiction
• fairytale
• tall tale

Reading Genre: story with unbelievable elements and big exaggerations

• tall tale
• realistic fiction
• fairytale
• science fiction

Text Organization:  author uses a central, big idea and lots of information to help support it

• main idea and details
• sequence
• cause and effect
• problem/ solution