IF - Author's Purpose

Author's Purpose

04/18/2022

Open Ended

What is your definition of author's purpose?

Open Ended

Name the four reasons that authors write (P.I.E.E).

Poll

I understand author's purpose.

• Totally! 🙃

• Still Need Help! 🤔

Multiple Choice

All passages are written for the same purpose.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

If you read about...how fun it is to create origami paper designs.

Multiple Choice

If you read about...a giant cat trying to take over a city.

Multiple Choice

Entertain means...

• To make people scared
• To make people sad
• To make people enjoy something
• To go to the circus

Multiple Choice

Inform means...

• Give informal speech
• Give information
• Take the form
• Give in a form

Multiple Choice

Persuade means...

• Make people agree with you
• Make people angry
• Make people think the opposite thing
• Make people happy

Multiple Choice

If you read about...profiles of all former U.S. Presidents.

Multiple Choice

If you read about...tornadoes and hurricanes and the how they develop.

Multiple Choice

The author is the ____________ of a story. 

• writer
• artist
• reader
• setting

Multiple Choice

An author's purpose is...

• the reason an author writes

• the reason an author teaches

• author's sense of humor

• author's way of life.