Author's Purpose

the author wants you to visualize or experience a person, place or thing-examples of this include product descriptions, imagery, descriptive essays, poems

• explain

• entertain

• describe

• persuade

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TEKS.ELA.6.9A

TEKS.ELA.7.9A

TEKS.ELA.7.9B

TEKS.ELA.8.9A

TEKS.ELA.8.9B

the reason an author's writes a text, article, story, paper, etc.

• explain

• entertain

• describe

• Author's purpose

Tags

TEKS.ELA.6.9B

TEKS.ELA.7.9A

TEKS.ELA.7.9B

TEKS.ELA.8.9A

TEKS.ELA.8.9B

the author wants to amuse you or for you to enjoy the writing-examples of this include fiction stories, jokes, poems, plays

• explain

• entertain

• describe

• Author's purpose

Tags

TEKS.ELA.6.9B

TEKS.ELA.7.9A

TEKS.ELA.7.9B

TEKS.ELA.8.9A

TEKS.ELA.8.9B

when the author wants you persuade to do, buy, or believe something-examples of this include advertisements, opinions, campaign speeches

• true

• false

Tags

TEKS.ELA.6.9B

TEKS.ELA.7.9A

TEKS.ELA.7.9B

TEKS.ELA.8.9A

TEKS.ELA.8.9B

When the author wants inform, they want to tell you how to do something or how something works-examples of this include instructions, directions, steps, procedures, how-to, recipes.

• true

• false

Tags

TEKS.ELA.6.9A

TEKS.ELA.6.9B

TEKS.ELA.7.9A

TEKS.ELA.7.9B

TEKS.ELA.8.9A

When the author wants describe, they want the author wants to give you information-examples of this include textbooks, non-fiction books, biographies, newspaper articles, directions.

• true

• false

Tags

TEKS.ELA.6.9A

TEKS.ELA.6.9B

TEKS.ELA.7.9A

TEKS.ELA.7.9B

TEKS.ELA.8.9B

The writer

...seeks to persuade audiences to accept a particular position on a controversial issue.

...describes the problem, proposes a solution, and provides justification.

• inquire and explore

• take a stand and provide a solution

• evaluate and judge

• inform and explain

Tags

TEKS.ELA.6.9A

TEKS.ELA.6.9B

TEKS.ELA.7.9A

TEKS.ELA.7.9B

TEKS.ELA.8.9B

The writer

...wrestles with a question or problem.

...hooks with the problem and lets the reader watch them wrestle with it.

• inquire and explore

• take a stand and provide a solution

• evaluate and judge

• inform and explain

Tags

TEKS.ELA.6.9A

TEKS.ELA.6.9B

TEKS.ELA.7.9B

TEKS.ELA.8.9A

TEKS.ELA.8.9B

The writer seeks to analyze and interpret phenomena that are difficult to understand or explain.

• inquire and explore

• analyze and interpret

• evaluate and judge

• inform and explain

Tags

TEKS.ELA.6.9A

TEKS.ELA.7.9A

TEKS.ELA.7.9B

TEKS.ELA.8.9A

TEKS.ELA.8.9B

The writer

...focuses on the worth of a person, object, idea, or other phenomenon.

...usually specifies the criteria to the object being seen as "good" or "bad".

• inquire and explore

• analyze and interpret

• evaluate and judge

• inform and explain

Tags

TEKS.ELA.6.9B

TEKS.ELA.7.9A

TEKS.ELA.7.9B

TEKS.ELA.8.9A

TEKS.ELA.8.9B