Authors Purpose

What is the authors purpose?

• Entertain

• Persuade

• Inform

Everyone agrees that recycling is an important way to conserve resources. Recycling plastic and metal reduces waste in landfills and reduces mining and pollution caused by manufacturing new products. If your family does not recycle, contact your local waste management department to find out how you can get started TODAY!
The author most likely wrote this selection to -

• Inform you about the consequences of recycling. 

• Describe what a recycling plant looks like. 

• Explain the steps in recycling. 

• Persuade you to recycle to conserve resources. 

An author always has only one purpose for writing?

• True

• False

Beth and her mom went to the circus. This was a special day because she had never been to a circus before. They bought peanuts and went to their seats. She saw clowns, jugglers, and people on trapezes. There were elephants, lions, and tigers. It was a very exciting day for Beth.
What is the author's purpose?

• to tell a story about a girl who enjoyed the circus

• to teach you about the animals in the circus

• to persuade you to visit the circus

• to explain how much it costs to attend the circus

Caroline Bartlett Crane was born in 1858 in Hudson, Wisconsin. After working as a teacher, she became a journalist and an ordained minister. Crane was an activist who worked toward women’s voting rights in the United States. Her tireless efforts at improving sanitation in large cities—especially in the slums where the poorest residents lived—earned her the title “America’s Housekeeper.”

• Persuade

• Inform

• Explain

• Describe

Jessie woke up super excited, today was the day he was going to adopt a pet! His dad took him to the pet store and they stopped in front of the puppy kennel where he found the cutest puppy he had ever seen, a chocolate lab named Lily. His father signed the adoption papers and Jessie took his new pet home. Ever since that day, Jessie and Lily have been inseparable best friends. What is the author’s purpose for writing this selection?

• Persuade

• Entertain

• Inform

Today, it is not uncommon to see women wearing high-heeled shoes. However, the first high-heeled shoes were actually made for men back in the 1500s. The heels helped soldiers keep their feet in the stirrups of their saddles as they rode into battle.

• Perdusade

• Inform

• Entertain

• Describe

Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and is the second smallest planet in the solar system. Named after the Roman God of War, Mars is also often described as the “Red Planet” due to it’s reddish appearance. Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin atmosphere made up of mostly carbon dioxide. Mars is also home to the tallest mountain in the solar system, a shield volcano named Olympus Mons formed over 1 billion years ago.

What is the author’s purpose for writing this selection?

• Persuade

• Entertain

• Inform

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

• Persuade, Inform, Electrify

• Perform, Infer, Entertain

• Persuade, Inform, Educate

• Persuade, Inform, Entertain

What is the purpose of a book of jokes about being in the fourth grade?

• Explain

• Entertain

• Persuade

• Inform