Author's Purpose and Perspective

Author's purpose is the reason or reasons an author has for writing a ______________.

• comic

• novel

• short story

• all of the above

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RL.6.6

Authors may have more than one purpose for

• jumping

• writing

• smiling

• wondering

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

If readers changed the way they thought about a topic or issue, one of the author's purposes may have been to:

• inform

• entertain

• persuade

• infer

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

What are the three most common reasons an author writes?

• inform

• persuade

• entertain

• all of the above

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RL.7.6

Author's __________________is the way an author looks at a topic or the ideas being described.

• purpose

• problem

• perspective

• pancake

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

Thoughtful readers are able to discern an author's perspective, opinions, hypotheses, assumptions and possible _______________________________.

• bias

• bananas

• data

• issue

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6