Text Features and Authors' Purpose

What is the author's purpose for writing?

• To make us laugh

• To describe

• To compare

• To inform

Authors text features, examples, and anecdotes to _________________________ key information.

• Compare

• Introduce

• Underline

• Distinguish

Graphs, charts, pictures, captions, and diagrams are examples of_____________________?

• Graphics

• Text Features

• Examples

• Quotes

Sometimes in informational text, authors use ___________________, or short stories to explain key information.

• Anecdotes

• Compare & Contrast

• Inferences

• Commas

The author wants to give you information.

• Entertain

• Persuade

• Inform

Bold and Italicized words are important because

• They show us what words are important to the text

• They create visual appeal within an article or story

• They are the topics found in the table of contents

• They tell us what the photographs and illustrations are about

A _____ tells the reader specific information in relation to a photograph or illustration within a text

• Bold & Italicized words

• Sub heading

• Caption

• Glossary

The _____ divides a text into sections and explains what each section will be about.

• Title

• Heading

• Subheading

• Photograph

____________ help the readers make sense of what they are reading.

• Text features

• Plagiarism

• Text citations

• Vocabulary

The _____ identifies what the topic of an article or book will be about.

• Subheading

• Glossary

• Title

• Photograph