Author's Purpose/TF/TS

What text structure explains why something happened or explains the effects of something?

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• Problem or Solution
• Cause or Effect
• Sequence

Which text structure is used to describe the similarities and differences between two or more subjects?

• Cause or Effect

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• Problem or Solution

• Sequence

What text structure is used to present a problem and then offer one or more solutions?

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• Cause or Effect

• Problem or Solution

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Which text structure is used to describe events in the order they happened?

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• Problem or Solution

• Cause or Effect

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What are the three reasons we write?
(Authors purpose for writing)

• Persuade, Inform, Electrify
• Perform, Infer, Entertain
• Persuade, Inform, Educate
• Persuade, Inform, Entertain

Persuade means...

• Make people agree with you
• Make people angry
• Make people think the opposite thing
• Make people fall in love

Inform means...

• Give informal speech
• Give information
• Take the form
• Give in a form

Entertain means...

• To make people scared
• To make people sad
• To make people enjoy something
• To go to the circus

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