Author's Purpose and Text Features

SCTW Pt 1: Author's Purpose + Text Features

Alternative Assignment

Author's Purpose

• Author's purpose is the reason they wrote the book.

• We can find author's purpose by analyzing details and word choice.

3 Types of Author's Purpose (PIE)

• Persuade: asking the reader to do something

• Inform: Giving information to a specific audience.

• Entertain: Simply to be enjoyed; normally fiction

Text features

• Anything besides a word that is inside a book

• Picture, caption, map, link, qr code, video, table, chart, etc

• Using the text features help readers understand the content.

Open Ended

Give 3 examples of a text feature.

Prologue

• Beginning of a book, written by the author.

• Sets the scene by giving background information

• Gives details on what happened right before the audience showed.

• As a semi-narrator, the writer of the prologue sometimes gives their short opinion on what's going on.

Multiple Select

What purposes does the prologue serve? Select three options

• to provide background information

• to specify what a particular section of text will be about

• to discuss events leading up to what happens in the text

• to offer a perspective on events in the text

Multiple Choice

What is the purpose of this passage?

I wanted to know more about the beguiling Nina, and my cousin had plenty of stories to share. He told me that her grandfather was a Russian serf—a farmer who could be bought and sold by the noble who owned his land. Family legend has it that this serf, a remarkable and intelligent man, helped to change the course of the history of sugar. In the early 1800s, the British controlled most of the sugar plantations of the Caribbean and the sea routes to Europe. As a result, their rivals were desperate to find a new way to create sugar. They turned to beets.

• It explains why the person telling the story is fascinated with Russian history.

• It provides background on how a family from Russia got into the sugar business.

• It explains that beets can be grown, processed, and refined into sugar for market.

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