Author's Purpose

What are the three reasons we write?
(Author's purpose for writing)

• Persuade, Inform, Electrify
• Perform, Infer, Entertain
• Persuade, Inform, Educate
• Persuade, Inform, Entertain

What is the author's purpose?
A care label on the back of a sweatshirt explaining how it should be washed.

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain

What is the author's purpose?
A novel about a young girl who demands respect from the world

• Entertain
• Inform
• Persuade

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.6.6

What is the author's purpose?
A sticker on a frozen pizza with directions explaining how to cook the pizza and offering nutritional information

• Inform
• Persuade
• Entertain

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

It's New!   It's Refreshing! 
  It's Slurpy Soda!
This is the best soda in the world!  If you drink this soda you will jump higher, run faster and be smarter in school. Try one today!

• to Inform
• to Entertain
• to Persuade

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What is author's purpose????

• why the author likes to write
• What the author is writing
• Why the author is writing
• How the author writes

A Garfield comic from the newspaper in which Garfield hates Mondays and likes lasagna 

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain

A five paragraph essay where a student argues that people should recycle and not litter 

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain

A brochure about how people shouldn’t shop at Walmart because they hurt local businesses 

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

The play "The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare 

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.7

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7