Author's Purpose Lesson

Persuade means...

• Make people agree with you

• Make people angry

• Make people fall in love

Inform means...

• Give informal speech

• Give information or teach something

• Give in a form

Entertain means...

• To make people leave

• To make people enjoy something

• To make people read

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

• To Entertain

• To Persuade

• To Inform

Recipes and instruction booklets are written to...

• Persuade

• Entertain

• Inform

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What is the authors purpose in this text?

• To Persuade

• To Entertain

• To Inform

What is the Author's Purpose?

• Persuade

• Inform

• Entertain

What is the Author's Purpose?

• Persuade

• Inform

• Entertain

What is the Author's Purpose?

• Persuade

• Inform

• Entertain

What is the Author's Purpose?

• Inform

• Entertain

• Persuade