Author's Purpose and Informational Text

What is the author's purpose for writing?

• To make us laugh

• To describe

• To compare

• To inform

Sometimes in informational text, authors use ___________________, or short stories to explain key information.

• Anecdotes

• Compare & Contrast

• Inferences

• Commas

Authors tell us information & then give us descriptions of its meaning through examples.

• Describe/Explain

• List

• Text Features

• State/Identify

The author's purpose is?

• the feeling associated with a word

• the reason the author wrote the text

• to make money off his/her writing

• the mood the author is in when he/she writes

Hellen Keller was born in 1880 and died in 1968. Despite being deaf and blind, Keller was a political activist, a lecturer, an author, and a tireless advocate for those with disabilities.

• Entertain

• Explain

• Inform

• Describe

The first American space station was launched in 1973. NASA scientists needed a way to give the astronauts who lived there for 171 days a way to detect smoke or fire before it was too late to stop. They invented a smoke detector for Skylab that ended up in about 90% of all private homes as well.

• Describe

• Entertain

• Explain

• Inform

Today, it is not uncommon to see women wearing high-heeled shoes. However, the first high-heeled shoes were actually made for men back in the 1500s. The heels helped soldiers keep their feet in the stirrups of their saddles as they rode into battle.

• Perdusade

• Inform

• Entertain

• Instruct

• Criticize

The primary purpose for an informational text when the author is trying to get the audience to do or think something is to?

• inform

• persuade

• entertain

• criticize

If an author proposes an idea, his/her purpose is to?

• compare

• explain

• suggest

• intensify

The author's purpose differs for _____________ and __________ texts.

• serious authors and funny authors

• poetry and free verse

• themes and central ideas

• informational and fictional