Author's Purpose;

Author's Purpose

Why We Write

Multiple Choice

Read this description and decide the author's purpose. A section in a history book describing the conditions and causes of the Great Depression in the Midwest in the 1930s

• to inform

• to persuade

• to entertain

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What is the author's purpose?

• the reason the reader reads a specific piece

• the reason the author writes a specific piece

• anything the author wants

• the reason the author likes to write

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Read this description and decide the author's purpose. A story about a family trying to stick together and survive through the Great Depression in the Midwest in the 1930s.

• to inform

• to entertain

• to amuse

• to persuade

Multiple Choice

Read the description and decide the author's purpose. An article that argues an IPOD music player is better than a ZUNE.

• to amuse

• to entertain

• to inform

• to persuade

Multiple Choice

The acronym for the three main types of author's purpose is

• AYE

• PIE

• DIE

• IPE

Multiple Choice

The author’s main purpose in writing this selection is to -

Youth Voices by Ed

Allowing our kids the freedom to grow and learn on their own is critical for development. A 2013 UK study directed by Professor Wolke found that “Children with overprotective parents were 10 percent more likely to be bullied. Positive parenting traits (authoritative parenting, communication, involvement, support, warmth, and affection) made children 19 percent less likely to be bullied.” Life isn’t always friendly, and there are situations where you have to stick up for yourself, despite others doing you wrong. These are lessons best learned early to be employed throughout your life because bullies do not go away despite involvement from authority figures. Everyone has disputes in their life and have to find a way to deal with them. Beyond handling social issues, simple problem solving is something that I see young people struggle with quite often when they are without help from an older person. This reliance on external aid directly leads to learned helplessness and an inability to solve problems with critical thinking on your own.

The author’s main purpose in writing this selection is to -

• explain how teens are unable to problem solve

• describe the effects of poor parenting

• inform about the findings of a new study

• persuade that parents should not be overprotective

Multiple Choice

What is the author's purpose?

Excerpt from The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

The thing the Time Traveller held in his hand was a glittering metallic framework, scarcely larger than a small clock, and very delicately made. There was ivory in it, and some transparent crystalline substance. And now I must be explicit, for this that follows—unless his explanation is to be accepted—is an absolutely unaccountable thing. He took one of the small octagonal tables that were scattered about the room, and set it in front of the fire, with two legs on the hearthrug. On this table he placed the mechanism. Then he drew up a chair, and sat down. The only other object on the table was a small shaded lamp, the bright light of which fell upon the model. There were also perhaps a dozen candles about, two in brass candlesticks upon the mantel and several in sconces, so that the room was brilliantly illuminated. I sat in a low arm-chair nearest the fire, and I drew this forward so as to be almost between the Time Traveller and the fireplace. Filby sat behind him, looking over his shoulder. The Medical Man and the Provincial Mayor watched him in profile from the right, the Psychologist from the left. The Very Young Man stood behind the Psychologist. We were all on the alert.

What is the author's purpose?

• to persuade

• to inform

• to entertain

• to explain