Author's Purpose Practice

Choose the author's purpose:

A nonfiction story about nations in Africa.

• persuade

• inform

• entertain

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.5

Choose the author's purpose:

A book titled "100 reasons Vanilla Ice Cream Is Nasty"

• persuade

• inform

• entertain

Choose the author's purpose:

The author wants to convince us that eating healthy is important.

• persuade

• inform

• entertain

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.8

Choose the author's purpose

Whistle for Willie, a story about a boy who practices until he can whistle.

• persuade

• inform

• entertain

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.SL.1.2

CCSS.SL.1.3

Choose the author's purpose:

Meet Rosina, a nonfiction story about a girl who is deaf.

• persuade

• inform

• entertain

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.7

CCSS.RL.1.5

Choose the author's purpose:

A tale about magical animals

• persuade

• inform

• entertain

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.2

True or false?

To inform means the author wants to make you believe something

• True

• False

Answer explanation

The author's purpose persuade means to make the reader believe something.

Tags

CCSS.W.1.2

True or false?

If the author wants to entertain the reader,

the author wrote a story for the reader to enjoy.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.2

CCSS.RL.1.4

CCSS.RL.1.7