Nonfiction Author's Purpose

​Nonfiction Author's Purpose

​Match the activity with the correct purpose

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The author wants to give you information about something that happened

• Persuade

• Describe

• Explain

• Inform

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The author want to report on, describe something

• Persuade

• Describe

• Explain

• Inform

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The author wants to make clear how something works, is made, or occurred.

• Persuade

• Describe

• Explain

• Inform

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The author wants to persuade you do to something or believe in something

• Persuade

• Describe

• Explain

• Inform

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A student's paper that urges others to reduce their waste, recycle as much as possible, and consider simple things like riding a bike instead of driving is an example of

• Persuade

• Describe

• Explain

• Inform

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A diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands

• Persuade

• Describe

• Explain

• Inform

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120 recipes that range from effortless breakfasts to breezy skillet meals to speedy soups to ready-in minutes Tex-Mex delights, so you'll have lots of options for any meal.

• Persuade

• Describe

• Explain

• Inform

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Escape from Auschwitz is a close-up look at the horror faced by the Jewish people in Auschwitz and across Europe during World War II

• Persuade

• Describe

• Explain

• Inform