Author's Purpose: Topic, Audience, and Task

What is the task?

• Something you do.

• What the writer writes.

• Cleaning up the kitchen.

What is the audience?

• The reader the author has in mind.

• The writer of the text.

• A group at a concert.

Tags

CCSS.W.4.2A

What is the topic?

• What the reader wants to read.

• What the text is about.

• What form the text is written.

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.SL.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2A

CCSS.W.4.2B

Check the items that are examples of an audience. (Select all that apply.)

• parents

• book

• persuade

• children

Tags

CCSS.W.4.4

Check the items that are examples of a task. (Select all that apply.)

• receipt

• song

• newsletter

• animals

Check the items that are examples of a topic. (Select all that apply.)

• stars

• entertain

• mosquitoes

• inform

What are the reasons or purposes writers write? (Check all that apply.)

• inform

• entertain

• persuade

• intimidate

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.8

CCSS.W.4.2D

What is the FIRST step in creating a task?

• Choose a purpose.

• Write.

• Choose a topic.

• Choose a task.

What is the SECOND step in creating a task?

• Choose a task.

• Choose a purpose and audience.

• Choose a topic.

• Write.

What is the LAST step in creating a task?

• Choose a topic.

• Choose a purpose.

• Choose a task.

• Write.