Authors Purpose

The author instructs or tells how to do something.

• entertain
• fiction/literary
• describe
• explain

Tags

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.8.4

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

• entertain
• inform
• describe
• bias

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.W.5.3B

The author writes to show or explain facts.

• inform
• entertain
• describe
• sensory words

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.W.5.2B

CCSS.W.5.2D

The author writes to influence or convince the reader.

• persuade
• describe
• inform
• entertain

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.W.5.1A

CCSS.W.5.1B

CCSS.W.5.1C

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

• describe
• persuade
• explain
• perspective

Tags

CCSS.W.5.3D

The way the author views the topic of the text.

• perspective
• assumption
• sensory words
• entertain

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

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

• assumption
• persuade
• inform
• sensory words

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5C

CCSS.RI.8.4

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.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.6

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.W.5.3D

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

• opinion
• sensory words
• sequencing words
• persuasive words

Tags

CCSS.L.5.6

CCSS.W.5.3C