Arkansas Foundations of Reading Test (FORT)

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What is one method for teaching readers to recognize the author's purpose in a text?

Encouraging the use of predictive text software.
Teaching readers to recognize text structures and features that indicate the author's purpose.
Asking readers to outline the text.
Focusing exclusively on vocabulary development.

The correct answer is: Teaching readers to recognize text structures and features that indicate the author's purpose.

Teaching readers to recognize text structures and features that indicate the author's purpose is an effective method for helping readers understand why a text was written. By familiarizing readers with common structures such as cause and effect, problem and solution, or compare and contrast, they can begin to infer the author's intention behind writing the text. This method encourages critical thinking and analysis of the text, leading to a deeper understanding of the author's purpose. On the other hand, the other options are not directly related to understanding the author's purpose in a text.