Text Structures and Author's Purpose

The reason why the author wrote the text

• cause and effect

• main idea

• problem or conflict

• author's purpose

A story written to bring the reader enjoyment

• entertains

• describes

• compares

• persuades

a text written to convince the reader to do or buy something

• informs

• persuades

• explains

• teaches

a text written to give the reader facts and information about a topic

• illustrates

• entertains

• retells

• informs

A text written about how two or more people or things are alike or different

• summarizes

• compares

• entertains

• teaches

The author uses adjectives or gives a lot of detail about a person, place, situation, or topic

• asks

• lists

• describes

• tells

A lesson or moral can be learned from reading this text

• creates

• teaches

• informs

• persuades

A statement that is true and can be proven

• cause

• reason

• fact

• opinion

What a person believes or thinks about something

• effect

• fact

• opinion

• lesson

How the author organizes the information in the text

• summary

• text structure

• main idea

• text features