Author's Purpose

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The author wrote this paragraph mainly to -
Options: compare the different food groups in the Food Group Pyramid, provide you information about the Food Group Pyramid, persuade you to use the Food Group Pyramid to plan your meals, offer a different way to look at food based off of the Food Group Pyramid

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provide you information about the Food Group Pyramid

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The author wrote this article most likely to -
Options:

teach readers to work hard

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tell readers about basketball

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inform readers about how tryouts can be hard

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suggest to readers that they should never do tryouts

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teach readers to work hard

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What is the main purpose of the selection about the importance of going to school?

Back

convince people to go to school

Front

The author wrote this paragraph mainly to -

Options: illustrate the importance of rules, share their opinion on rules, explain where the first rules came from, list the different places rules are used

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illustrate the importance of rules

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The author wrote this article most likely to -

• show the benefits of The Awesome Artists program
• compare the cost of an art program to a music program
• convince people to sign up for an art program
• explain why The Awesome Artists program is the best

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convince people to sign up for an art program

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What is the main purpose of the selection about smiling?

Back

describe the benefits of smiling for your health

Front

The author wrote this article most likely to -

Back

highlight the different places cobras can be found

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The purpose of the selection about the Underground Railroad is mainly to -

Back

describe the Underground Railroad

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What is the main purpose of the paragraph about Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder? Options: inform about Wilder's life, suggest that Wilder's life was boring, explain how Wilder met her husband, persuade people to read the Little House series.

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inform about Wilder's life

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The purpose of the story where Katina accidentally squirts her mom with a water hose is mainly to -

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teach kids to think before they act