Author's Purpose

The author is trying to convince the reader to do something or think a certain way 

• persuade
• inform
• bias
• explain 

A story about a family trying to stick together and survive during the Great Depression 

• Explain
• Inform 
• Entertain
• Describe

A section in a history book describing the conditions and causes of the Great Depression in the Midwest in the 1930s 

• Inform
• Persuade
• Entertain
• Explain

A paragraph telling you about how a piece of candy smells, looks, feels, sounds and tastes. 

• Describe
• Inform
• Entertain
• Explain 

A recipe for cookies giving step by step instructions 

• Entertain
• Explain
• Describe
• Persuade

Persuade means...

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

Entertain means...

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

what does describe mean?

• to inform
• to tell about something
• to have fun
• to get you to do something

what does explain mean?

• to tell you how to do something
• to describe
• to inform 
• to have fun

what does inform mean?

• to explain
• to give facts 
• to have fun
• to tell about something