Authors Purpose

The author instructs or tells how to do something.

• entertain
• fiction/literary
• describe
• explain

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

The author writes to make the reader laugh, cry, or experience some other emotion.

• entertain
• inform
• describe
• bias

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

The author writes to show or explain facts.

• inform
• entertain
• describe
• sensory words

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

The author writes to influence or convince the reader.

• persuade
• describe
• inform
• entertain

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

The author uses the five senses to tell about a topic.

• describe
• persuade
• explain
• perspective

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

The way the author views the topic of the text.

• perspective
• assumption
• sensory words
• entertain

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

The author writes about a fact or statement that is taken for granted.

• assumption
• persuade
• inform
• sensory words

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

The author writes about an attitude that always favors one way of feeling or acting over any other.

• bias
• inform
• describe
• sensory words

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

words that connects to the five senses to create an image or description.
thump, creamy, salty, cold, gurgle, blurred, twinkling

• sensory words
• fact
• inform
• sequencing words

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

words that identify order
First, Second, Next, Then, Finally, After that

• opinion
• sensory words
• sequencing words
• persuasive words

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A