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

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RI.3.6

A handbook teaching people how to negotiate 

• describe
• explain
• inform
• persuade

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.4.8

CCSS.W.4.2B

CCSS.W.4.2D

A menu for a local pizzeria listing the sizes and prices of pizzas and available toppings

• describe
• explain
• inform
• persuade

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.W.4.2D

A pie graph showing how many pies were sold in each flavor during November last year 

• inform
• explain
• describe
• persuade

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.7

A children’s book about a cherry pie and an apple pie that overcome their differences to become good friends 

• entertain
• explain
• describe
• persuade

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.W.4.3A

A bookmark by the American Dairy Association listing 10 reasons to drink milk

• persuade
• explain
• describe
• entertain

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.4.8

What is the author's purpose for writing a passage like the following?

A five-paragraph essay in which the author attempts to convince readers to recycle more and to be less wasteful

• to inform
• to entertain
• to persuade
• to describe

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

What is the author's purpose for writing a passage like the following?

A short story about a boy who never cleans his room and the horrible mess that accumulates

• to inform
• to entertain
• to persuade
• to describe

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.6.6

What is the author's purpose for writing a passage like the following?

A bookmark with facts about garbage, such as the average weight of garbage created each year by each individual and the height and width of the largest pile of garbage 

• to inform
• to entertain
• to persuade
• to describe

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.6.6

Inform means...

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.2.5