Authors' Purpose: Explain, Describe, Compare, Contrast

What is the author explaining in this text?

• Where you can buy houseplants

• What houseplants look like

• One way houseplants are helpful

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.2

CCSS.RI.2.2

CCSS.RL.1.2

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

What is the author explaining?

• What litter is and why it is bad for the environment

• Where to find litter

• How to recycle

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

What question is the author answering, describing, or explaining here?

• The author is explaining how to use a seatbelt

• The author is answering why seat belts are important

• The author is describing what a seat belt looks like

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

What is the author answering, describing, or explaining in this text?

• The author is answering the question: what is a Ferris wheel?

• The author is answering the question: how fast do Ferris wheels go?

• The author is describing the first Ferris wheel.

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.6

CCSS.RI.3.6

CCSS.RL.3.6

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

What was the author's purpose of this text?

• To explain what ghost ships are

• To tell what the Bermuda Triangle is

• To describe how tropical storms are formed

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.6

CCSS.RI.3.6

CCSS.RL.3.6

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

What is the author answering, describing, or explaining here?

• The author is describing what a hot air balloon looks like.

• The author is answering the question: how do hot air balloons stay in the sky?

• The author is explaining the steps to riding a hot air balloon.

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.6

CCSS.RI.3.6

CCSS.RL.3.6

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

What is the main purpose for this text?

• To describe where Thomas Edison was born.

• To answer the question: who was Thomas Edison?

• To describe the light bulb.

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.2

CCSS.RI.2.2

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

First, Next, Last are seen when the author's main purpose is to...

• Answer

• Describe

• Explain

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CCSS.RI.2.6

CCSS.RI.3.6

CCSS.RL.3.6

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

Using adjectives and the 5 senses means the author's main purpose is to...

• answer

• describe

• explain

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.6

CCSS.RI.3.6

CCSS.RL.3.6

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

The author's main purpose for writing this book is

• To answer a question about zebras

• Describe zebras

• Explain where zebras come from

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6