Authors Purpose

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English
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4th Grade
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Hard
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Sarah Williams
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15 questions
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
“Once upon a time in a magical kingdom, there lived a great hero. He was about to set out on a dangerous quest!”
Explain
Persuade
Entertain
Inform
Tags
CCSS.RI.3.6
CCSS.RI.6.9
CCSS.RL.3.6
CCSS.RL.4.6
CCSS.RL.5.6
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What is the purpose of a narrative written by another student about the first time she tried to ice skate?
Entertain
Explain
Persuade
Describe
Tags
CCSS.RL.3.6
CCSS.RL.4.10
CCSS.RL.4.6
CCSS.RL.5.10
CCSS.RL.5.6
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Sarah knew time travel was impossible. Everything she’d learned in science told her it couldn’t be done. But as she looked around the street, noting the horse-drawn carriages and the women dressed in long dresses and hats, she realized she was in the nineteenth century.
Persuade
Inform
Entertain
Describe
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Many people buy vegetables in the grocery store without knowing where they were grown or how they arrived at the store. Supermarkets should be required to label each fruit or vegetable with a sign telling shoppers where and when the food was grown and how far it traveled to the supermarket.
Inform
Explain
Persuade
Describe
Tags
CCSS.RI.3.6
CCSS.RI.6.6
CCSS.RL.3.6
CCSS.RL.4.6
CCSS.RL.5.6
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What is the purpose of a book of jokes about being in the fourth grade?
Explain
Entertain
Persuade
Inform
Tags
CCSS.RI.2.6
CCSS.RI.3.6
CCSS.RL.3.6
CCSS.RL.4.6
CCSS.RL.5.6
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
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
Tags
CCSS.RI.2.6
CCSS.RI.3.6
CCSS.RL.3.6
CCSS.RL.4.6
CCSS.RL.5.6
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What are the three reasons we write?
(Authors purpose for writing)
Persuade, Inform, Electrify
Perform, Infer, Entertain
Persuade, Inform, Educate
Persuade, Inform, Entertain
Tags
CCSS.RI.3.6
CCSS.RI.6.9
CCSS.RL.3.6
CCSS.RL.4.6
CCSS.RL.5.6
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