Author's Purpose

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An Author wants to give you information to

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Inform

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When an author wants you to buy, try or believe something

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Persuade

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Instructions for the board game is Life is meant to

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Inform

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When the author wants you to enjoy the writing

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Entertain

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Textbooks, non-fiction books, biographies are examples of...

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Inform

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Fiction stories, jokes, poems and songs are examples of

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Entertain

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A child's letter to Santa explaining why she deserves a Barbie is an example of

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Persuade

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A three paragraph essay where a student argues why there shouldn't be homework every night

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Persuade

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A comic from the newspaper in which Charlie Brown makes an airplane.

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Entertain

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The play "Wicked" on broadway.

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Persuade