Author's Purpose

What is the definition of Author's Purpose?

• Why a reading passage was written
• Descriptive details about a person, place, or thing.
• Figuring out something that is not directly stated in a reading passage
• figuring out the meaning of unknown words from other words

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CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

Dear Edith, 
Pets should be allowed in restaurants. I brought my dog to dinner, and the waiter threw us out. He said that dogs were dirty, but my dog is cleaner than many people. I know! It's not fair - it's a ridiculous rule, and it should be changed.

• to persuade
• to inform
• to entertain

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CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.8.6

Persuade means...

• Make people agree with you
• Make people angry
• Make people think the opposite thing
• Make people fall in love

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CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.8

Inform means...

• Give informal speech
• Give information
• Take the form
• Give in a form

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CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Entertain means...

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RI.7.6

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

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RI.7.6

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.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

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.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

Poems and Stories are used for...

• Entertaining
• Informing
• Explaining
• Persuading 

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CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

Textbooks are used for...

• Entertaining
• Informing

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CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.5