Author's Purpose

Author's purpose

By Brianna Jones

Multiple Choice

How many words can be used to describe an author's purpose?

• There are only 4 - Persuade, Inform, Entertain, & Describe

• There are only 7

• There are more than we can cover in this class

Here are just a handful of reasons an author might decide to write a text.

Multiple Choice

What does it mean when an author is trying to PERSUADE you?

• They are trying to tell you a new fun fact.

• They are telling you what something looks like.

• They are trying to convince you to believe something.

• They are trying to show the differences between two or more things.

Multiple Choice

What does it mean when an author is trying to INFORM you about something?

• They are telling you what something looks like in great detail.

• They are trying to convince you to believe something.

• They are giving reasons or evidence in support of an idea/action/theory.

• They are giving relevant facts and information about the topic.

Multiple Choice

What does it mean when an author is trying to DEFEND something?

• They are trying to show the differences between two or more things.

• They give reasons or evidence in support of an idea, action, or theory.

• They are explaining the cause & effect relationship between two things.

• They are telling you what something looks like in great detail.

Multiple Choice

What does it mean when an author is trying to ILLUSTRATE something?

• They explain or make something clear by using examples, charts, pictures, etc.

• They are explaining the cause & effect relationship between two things.

• They are trying to show the differences between two or more things.

• They are trying to convince you to believe something.

Let's read!

“Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination encircles the world, stimulates progress, gives birth to evolution.” –Albert Einstein

This weekend I watched my daughter playing at the park with her friends. The play structure was a medieval castle, the bark—hot lava. Her imagination was unlimited, her enthusiasm unbridled.

I remembered doing the same things as a child and couldn’t help but wonder what happened to my

sense of imagination as I grew up.
But modern neuroimaging suggests that as we age—the cognitive centers of our brain shift from living out of imagination—to living out of memory.

What kind of leader could I be without the creative superpower of imagination?

Without imagination Columbus never would have set out on his long journey and Steve Jobs never would have invented the iPhone.

Multiple Choice

What is the author's purpose in these paragrapghs?

• The author is persuading more kids to go outside & play like his daughter.

• The author informs the audience about his decision to use imagination actively in his everyday life.

• The author defends his choice to be as imaginative as possible.

• The author illustrates an example of imagination with an anecdote about his daughter.

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