Author's Purpose

Author's Purpose

6th - 8th Grade

25 Qs

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Author's Purpose

Author's Purpose

Assessment

Quiz

English

6th - 8th Grade

Easy

CCSS
RL.7.6, RL.6.6, RL.8.10

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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

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

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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

Persuade
Inform
Entertain

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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.8.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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.7.6

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RL.6.6

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

Media Image

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

Persuade
Inform
Entertain

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