Explain Authors Purpose and Message Within a Text

What is the author explaining in this text?

• Where you can buy houseplants

• What houseplants look like

• One way houseplants are helpful

What is the author explaining?

• What litter is and why it is bad for the environment

• Where to find litter

• How to recycle

What question is the author answering, describing, or explaining here?

• The author is explaining how to use a seatbelt

• The author is answering why seat belts are important

• The author is describing what a seat belt looks like

What is the author answering, describing, or explaining in this text?

• The author is answering the question: what is a Ferris wheel?

• The author is answering the question: how fast do Ferris wheels go?

• The author is describing the first Ferris wheel.

What was the author's purpose of this text?

• To explain what ghost ships are

• To tell what the Bermuda Triangle is

• To describe how tropical storms are formed

What is the author answering, describing, or explaining here?

• The author is describing what a hot air balloon looks like.

• The author is answering the question: how do hot air balloons stay in the sky?

• The author is explaining the steps to riding a hot air balloon.

What is the main purpose for this text?

• To describe where Thomas Edison was born.

• To answer the question: who was Thomas Edison?

• To describe the light bulb.

First, Next, Last are seen when the author's main purpose is to...

• Answer

• Describe

• Explain

Using adjectives and the 5 senses means the author's main purpose is to...

• answer

• describe

• explain

The author's main purpose for writing this book is

• To answer a question about zebras

• Describe zebras

• Explain where zebras come from