Elements of Nonfiction Overview

What is the author's Purpose

• the primary reason an author wrote a text

• the main reason something happened

• what an author wants you to know about a text

• something written to explain something

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CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RL.6.2

Which of the following would not be a primary purpose for writing a text?

• to compare

• to entertain

• to be creative

• to inform

Which of the following would be an example of an informative text?

• a speech

• a textbook

• a biography

• an interview

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CCSS.RI.6.1

Which of the following would be an example of a literary nonfiction text?

• a speech

• a textbook

• a biography

• an interview

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.6.3

Which of the following would be an example of a persuasive text?

• a speech

• a textbook

• a biography

• an encyclopedia

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CCSS.W.6.1A

CCSS.W.6.1B

What is the central idea of a text?

• the funniest part of a story

• a new idea

• what the author wants you to know or understand about a topic

• the moral of the story

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CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RL.6.2

What are key details?

• What the author wants you to know or understand about a topic

• facts, examples, stories, quotes that support the main or central idea

• new vocabulary that is written in bold letters

• the moral of the story

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CCSS.W.6.2B

What is Point of View?

• the ideas or beliefs that shape an authors writing

• bias

• what the author wants you to learn or know about a topic

• the moral of a story

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CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

Which of the following would not help you understand an author's point of view?

• word choice

• tone

• quoted words

• jokes

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.6

Which of the following is a definition of the following text feature: description of list?

• a text that resembles an outline. It opens with the main idea and then elaborates on it

• the author tells what happened and reasons why it may have happened

• the author tells similarities and differences between multiple things

• the text follows  the order in which events occurred or the steps in a process