ACT Prep - Reading Terms 1

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What are the three primary reasons author's write or create a text? (Think: Author's Purpose) Options: Persuade, Inform, Electrify, Perform, Infer, Entertain, Persuade, Infer, Educate, Persuade, Inform, Entertain

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Persuade, Inform, Entertain

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Persuade means...

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Make people agree with you

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Inform means...

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Give information

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Entertain means...

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To make people enjoy something

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Hellen Keller was born in 1880 and died in 1968. Despite being deaf and blind, Keller was a political activist, a lecturer, an author, and a tireless advocate for those with disabilities. (Author's purpose here is to -

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Inform

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Read the following passage and then answer the question.
There are five teams of students in the fifth grade. The blue team has math first period, and the red team has science. The yellow team gets to go outside early in the morning, while the green team goes to music. Only students on the orange team get to play games first period. Each student wears a nametag with his or her color, so that the teachers and students all know where a student should be. What is the main idea of the passage?

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Students are organized by teams with color names .