Arkansas Foundations of Reading Test (FORT)

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.