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author's purpose

• what the selection is mostly about
• the reason someone writes
• to put the events in order
• when and where the story takes place

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The message or lesson that the author wants you to learn from the story is called the

• thesis
• summary
• theme
• plot

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In a song, the author's purpose is to:

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain
• Describe

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What is the authors purpose in this writing:
_{First, you get the bread. Then, you get the jelly and peanut butter. Then, you get a butter knife and spread the jelly and peanut butter on separate pieces of bread. Lastly, put the two slices of bread together and BOOM! You got a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.}

• To explain
• To entertain
• To Inform
• To decribe

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What is Chirons purpose?

• To teach heroes
• To protect heroes

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Evaluate the title of the book. Why did the author name the novel Tuck Everlasting?

• I don't know
• The Tucks live in a magical forest that never dies
• Mr. Tuck is forever asleep
• The Tuck family lives forever, never aging or dying 

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Do you carpool to school? Do you take a bus? It should be a requirement for everyone to either share a ride or walk to school every day. If we are serious about saving the planet, we must take steps to conserve energy and reduce fossil fuel emissions.

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain
• Explain

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I wonder who invented putting water into plastic bottles? Water bottles are disposable which means that they can be thrown away. Landfills are overflowing with garbage because people are too lazy to fill a reusable cup with water. Recycling has been set up, but many people do not recycle all of the water bottles that they use. The earth is being polluted with all the used water bottles.

What is the author's perspective?

• People should not drink out of water bottles beacuse they are disposable.

• People should drink out of water bottles becuase disposable things are good.

• People should never drink water.

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Do you ever wonder how you taste things? You owe your sense of taste to your taste buds. We have 9,000 taste buds just on the tongue alone. There are also taste buds on the roof of your mouth. You even have taste buds on the back of your throat.

What does the author want you to learn from the passage?

• Why we can taste only certain things.

• That we taste through our noses

• Where taste buds are found

• We have taste buds on our tongues

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A message about life and human behavior that an author expresses in a text.

• character

• plot

• Theme

• setting

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