Author's Purpose

What is the definition of Author's Purpose?

• Figuring out the meaning of unknown words from other words

• Figuring out something that is not directly stated in a reading passage

• Why a reading passage was written

• Descriptive details about a person, place, or thing.

What are the three reasons an author would write?

• Persuade, Inform, Electrify

• Persuade, Inform, Educate

• Perform, Infer, Entertain

• Persuade, Inform, Entertain

The big question with author's purpose is...

• WHAT?

• WHEN?

• WHY?

• HOW?

When asked the big question, why, we are trying to figure out what message the author is trying to get across to the reader.

• True

• False

Persuade means...

• Make people angry

• Make people agree with you

• Make people think the opposite thing

• to trick people into doing something

When the author is informing, they are really trying to...

• get you to try something new

• purchase something for your friend

• give you new information and teach you facts.

When an author is writing to entertain they are trying to get the reader to...

• argue

• enjoy

• regreat

• yell

Which of the following is NOT an example of entertain?

• Commercials

• Movies

• Novels

• Plays

Which of the following is NOT an example of inform?

• Documentaries

• News Articles

• Poems

• Textbooks

Which of the following is NOT an example of persuade?

• Advertisements

• Biographies

• Commercials

• Speech