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It's important to go to school. What you learn in school will help you later in life. It will also help you get a job. If you work hard in school and make good grades, you may be able to go to college and have a career.
What is the author's purpose?

• to entertain with a story about school
• to teach you how to get good grades
• to persuade you to work hard in school
• to explain the best colleges

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What is the authors purpose?
"She threw the paper airplane. It looped through the trees, under the dogs belly, up into the sky and landed in the hot air balloon."

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain

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Newspaper articles are used for...  

• Persuading
• Entertaining
• Informing

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the author wants to give you information

• Entertain
• Persuade
• Inform

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the author wants to amuse you or for you to enjoy the writing

• Entertain
• Inform
• Persuade

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the reason an author writes a story or text 

• theme
• main idea
• summary
• author's purpose

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Deer are beautiful creatures.

They are so graceful to watch as

they run through the forest. It's

hard to understand how anyone could do anything to harm these beautiful animals.

What is the author's perspective?

• The author favors deer hunting

• The author thinks there are too many deer

• The author does not favor deer hunting

• The author thinks deer harm the environment

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The author’s REASON for writing the text

-persuade -entertain -teach -explain

-inform -express feelings

• Author's Purpose

• Main Idea

• Setting

• Details

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What does the poet mean when they write about their feelings that other people are "as good and as bad as I"?

• The poet means that the other people have done horrible things.
• The poet means that they don't judge other people and they are kind to others.
• The poet means that other people do good things. 
• The poet means that they live in a house with good and bad people.

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"Spring Break is a fun time of year. We gather with our family and eat delicious food. It is usually warm and my cousins and I play tag and swim! I look forward to it every year!"

The author's point of view in this passage is ..

• positive feeling about spring break

• negative feeling about spring break

• has no opinion about spring break

• doesn't care about spring break

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