Authors Purpose & Cause & Effect

What does Author's Purpose mean?

• The book title

• The reason the author wrote the story

• The pictures inside the book

• The purple author

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CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

What are the 3 reasons an author will write a story?

• perform, identify, and enter

• peace, love, and happiness

• purple, ice, and entrance

• persuade, inform, and entertain

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CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.W.3.1A

What does persuade mean?

• to do a performance

• to eat pomegranates

• to convince someone

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CCSS.L.3.4A

CCSS.RI.3.4

What does inform mean?

• to teach someone something

• to make people wear uniforms

• to make people dumber

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CCSS.RI.3.4

What does entertain mean?

• to bore someone

• to make someone enjoy

• to put someone to sleep

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CCSS.L.3.4A

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What is the purpose:

Chocolate ice cream is the best ice cream flavor.

You have to try chocolate!

It is better than all the other flavors.

Next time, you order ice cream make sure you order chocolate ice cream!!

• persuade

• inform

• entertain

Tags

CCSS.W.3.1A

CCSS.W.3.1B

CCSS.W.3.1C

What is the purpose:

Did you know that sharks cannot swim backwards? Another amazing fact about sharks is they cannot stop swimming or else they will sink to the bottom! Sharks are interesting animals.

• persuade

• inform

• entertain

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.3.2

What is the purpose:

Mrs. Day is so silly! She put her clothes on backwards and went to school that way! She walked backwards wherever she went and she even tried to sit in her chair backwards

• persuade

• inform

• entertain

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CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.2

Tim forgot his math book, so he was unable to complete his homework. 
What is the cause? 

• Tim forgot his math book
• so he was unable to complete his homework

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CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RI.3.3

CCSS.RI.3.8

Cause: Badger skipped lunch.

Effect:

• He was hungry

• because he skipped lunch

• He skipped dinner too

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.3

CCSS.RI.3.8