Authors Purpose

The way the author views the topic of the text.

• perspective
• assumption
• sensory words
• entertain

Do you carpool to school? Do you take a bus? It should be a requirement for everyone to either share a ride or walk to school every day. If we are serious about saving the planet, we must take steps to conserve energy and reduce fossil fuel emissions.

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain
• Explain

Today, it is not uncommon to see women wearing high-heeled shoes. However, the first high-heeled shoes were actually made for men back in the 1500s. The heels helped soldiers keep their feet in the stirrups of their saddles as they rode into battle.

• Perdusade

• Inform

• Entertain

• Describe

Driving west from Capital Park, turn left onto Maple Avenue. Continue for three blocks until you come to Trumbull Street, and then turn right. The library will be on your left.

• Persuade
• Describe
• Explain
• Inform

“Once upon a time in a magical kingdom, there lived a great hero. He was about to set out on a dangerous quest!”

• Explain
• Persuade
• Entertain
• Inform

Sarah knew time travel was impossible. Everything she’d learned in science told her it couldn’t be done. But as she looked around the street, noting the horse-drawn carriages and the women dressed in long dresses and hats, she realized she was in the nineteenth century.

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain
• Describe

The rabbit’s fur was as soft as velvet, and he seemed to enjoy having people pet him. He would snuggle in closer, lay his ears back, and pull in his feet.

• Persuade
• Explain
• Entertain
• Describe

Hellen Keller was born in 1880 and died in 1968. Despite being deaf and blind, Keller was a political activist, a lecturer, an author, and a tireless advocate for those with disabilities.

• Entertain
• Explain
• Inform
• Describe

What is the purpose of a book of jokes about being in the fourth grade?

• Explain
• Entertain
• Persuade
• Inform

The cat’s eyes were yellow, tinged with gold and brown. In the sunlight, the colors collided into each other like a topaz stone....or maybe a rich caramel candy. The unique color was so radiant it even shone in dim lighting.

• Explain
• Entertain
• Inform
• Describe