Author's Purpose Examples

Author's Purpose Examples

Multiple Choice

What would the author's purpose be for this image

• To entertain

• To inform

• To persuade

• To describe

Multiple Choice

What do all of these books have in common with each other?

• Their titles

• They are the same size

• They all have facts and information

• We will need those in 6th grade

Multiple Choice

What is the author's purpose with books like these?

• To inform

• To persuade

• To entertain

• To describe

Multiple Choice

What pieces of text help the reader identify that the purpose is to entertain?

• Chapters and titles

• Pictures

• Quotation marks and dialogues

• Copyright date

Multiple Choice

What is the author's purpose with this text?

• To persuade

• To describe

• To inform

• To entertain

Multiple Choice

What is another example of an author trying to PERSUADE the reader?

• Posters at the Doctor's office

• Letters in the mail

• Commercials on tv

• Pictures in coloring books

Multiple Choice

What is the author's purpose when giving the reader a recipe?

• To inform

• To explain

• To persuade

• To describe

Open Ended

Explain your answer. How do you know that was the author's purpose?

Open Ended

Give an example of how an author would try to describe something to the reader.