Reading formative grade 3

What are the three reasons we write?
(Authors purpose for writing)

• Persuade, Inform, Electrify
• Perform, Infer, Entertain
• Persuade, Inform, Educate
• Persuade, Inform, Entertain

Inform means...

• Give informal speech
• Give information
• Take the form
• Give in a form

Persuade means...

• Make people agree with you
• Make people angry
• Make people think the opposite thing
• Make people fall in love

Entertain means...

• To make people scared
• To make people sad
• To make people enjoy something
• To go to the circus

What is the authors purpose?
"Eating too much cake and not exercising will give us health problems."

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain

Mrs. Musso is a teacher at Lincoln.

• fact

• opinion

Dogs are mammals.

• fact

• opinion

Dogs are fun to play with.

• fact

• opinion

A fact is...

• something that can be proven (with evidence).

• someone's belief about something.

• what I say.

• found in the news.

An opinion is...

• always true.

• when someone argues.

• what someone thinks.