Author's Purpose

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

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

Entertain means...

• To make people sleepy
• To make people leave
• To make people enjoy something
• To make people read

Persuade means...

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

Inform means...

• Give informal speech
• Give information or teach something
• Take the form
• Give in a form

If the author is trying to make you laugh his/her purpose is...

• To Entertain 
• To Persuade 
• To Explain
• To Inform

Commercials are used for...  

• Persuading
• Entertaining
• Informing

Textbooks are used for...

• Entertaining
• Informing
• Persuading

What is the author's purpose?
A sticker on a frozen pizza with directions explaining how to cook the pizza and offering nutritional information

• Inform
• Persuade
• Entertain

A story written about a young boy who moves to a new school and is bullied, but he gains self-confidence by joining a sports team and learns to stand up for himself. 

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain

How is a speech in which a student promises daily pizza rations if he is elected class president persuasive?

• The author attempts to influence people with this speech.
• The author attempts to entertain people with this speech.
• The author attempts to inform people with this speech.

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