Author's Purpose Review

If you read a passage that told each step to take when making a grilled cheese, what is the author’s purpose?

• explain
• entertain
• persuade
• inform

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.6

CCSS.RL.3.6

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

If you read a passage about an author trying to get you to believe that markers work better than crayons, what would the author’s purpose be?

• inform
• describe
• persuade
• entertain 

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RL.3.6

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

How can you tell if the author's purpose of a passage is to explain?

• It gives factual information.
• It gives steps on how to do something.
• It convinces you to believe the author's opinion.
• It describes an event with senses.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RL.3.6

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

What is the author's purpose in a nonfiction book about monkeys?

• persuade
• inform
• entertain
• describe

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.6

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

What is the author's purpose for a fiction story about about a magical princess?

• entertain
• explain
• inform
• persuade

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RL.3.6

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

What is the author's purpose?

• The reason the author writes a story or article

• The type of paper the story is written on

• The place that the author is writing about

• The characters that the author is writing about

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RL.3.6

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

What does it mean to inform someone?

• To tell them about an important topic

• To make them happy

• To scare them

• To try and convince them to think the same way as you

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.6

CCSS.RL.3.6

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

What does it mean to entertain?

• To scare people

• To try and convince people to think the same as you

• To make people happy

• To tell people about a topic

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RL.3.6

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

An author's purpose is ...

• the reason an author teaches.

• the reason an author writes.

• the author's sense of humor.

• the author's way of life.

The author is the _______________ of a story.

• artist

• reader

• writer

• setting