Making Connections

The reason an author writes about a particular topic.

• Tone

• Author's purpose

• Key ideas

• Audience

Restate the meaning of something in different words.

• Context

• Text Structure

• Paraphrase

Multimodal texts use the combination of two or more modes of communication.

• True

• False

The reporter clearly did not like the candidate's platform based on her article's _.

• Tone

• Key ideas

• Text structure

• Audience

The intended _ was meant to be in support of changes to the dress code.

• Genre

• Conext

• Text structure

• Audience

You have to read the whole article to understand the author's point of view. Otherwise it can be taken out of _.

• Summarize

• Tone

• Context

• Key ideas

Author's use transition to maintain an organized text structure.

• True

• False

Answering the who, what, why, where, how, and when questions are a good way to _ the main idea of a text.

• Paraphrase

• Summarize

Key ideas support the central message but never support the theme and tone.

• True

• False

A piece of writing usually categorized by form, content, or technique.

• Table of contents

• Chapter

• Genre

• Paragraphs