Author's purpose

What are the three reasons we write?
(Authors purpose for writing)

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.6

Persuade means...

• Make people agree with you

• Make people angry

• Make people fall in love

Inform means...

• Give informal speech

• Give information

• Take the form

• Give in a form

Entertain means...

• To make people scared
• To make people sad
• To make people enjoy something
• To go to the circus

What is the authors purpose?
"Eating too much cake and not exercising will give us health problems."

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain

What is the authors purpose?
"Every house should have a dog. They are cute, loyal and will protect your house."

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.6

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What is the authors purpose?
"She threw the paper airplane. It looped through the trees, under the dogs belly, up into the sky and landed in the hot air balloon."

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.6

What is the author's purpose?
A recipe to make an award-winning spicy chicken salad.

• Entertain
• Inform
• Persuade

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.6

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 script for a TV show about a detective who can read the minds of farm animals

• Inform
• Entertain
• Persuade