Point of View: Author's Purpose 6A Lesson 1

Point of View: Author's Purpose 6A Lesson 1

Basic

Multiple Choice

I am a teacher in a college in a large city in China. One day, some students asked me to join them for dinner. They said they wanted to take me to a very special restaurant that had just opened. This new place served American food. The students were proud that their city had a restaurant that served fine American food. I was quite surprised when we got to the restaurant. My students had taken me to a very well-known fast food restaurant!

• Inform

• Entertain

• Share personal experience

• Persuade

Multiple Choice

Helping someone else is a great way to meet people. It gives you a reason to step outside of what you know. A few things can happen as a result. You might learn new things. You may gain a new way to see life. Many people say that if you help someone else once, you usually decide to do it again. It is not hard to be a part of Make A Difference Day. You could read to sick kids at a hospital. You could cook or clean for someone who needs help. You could plant trees in your local park. You could help teach senior citizens how to use a computer.

2. In the paragraph above, the author’s purpose is to

• Inform

• Entertain

• Share personal experience

• Persuade

Multiple Choice

Some members of the bird family can also be quite small. The hummingbird is perhaps the most well-known example. Most are three to five inches in size. But the smallest living bird on Earth is the bee hummingbird. The male will be only two to three inches big when fully grown. It is so small that some people actually think it’s a bee. (Thus, the name.) And it will weigh as little as 1.5 grams. That is lighter than a penny.

3. In the paragraph above, the author’s purpose is to

• Inform

• Entertain

• Share personal experience

• Persuade

Multiple Choice

Charley went to the incubator and looked inside of it. The top of each egg had a little crack in it. Then Charley saw the head of a baby chick. “They are finally hatching! I have real Easter chicks!” And, in the same way the first chick hatched, all the other chicks hatched. “Look, all three eggs hatched!” her dad said. “That means you did a great job taking care of them, Charley!”

In the paragraph above, the author’s purpose is to

• Inform

• Entertainment

• Share personal experience

• Persuade

Poll

I can determine the author's purpose of a given text.

• I can confidently identify author's purpose

• I need more practice to identify author's practice

• I can not identify author's purpose