Lessons on Authors Purpose

The author instructs or tells how to do something.

• entertain
• fiction/literary
• describe
• explain

The author writes to make the reader laugh, cry, or experience some other emotion.

• entertain
• inform
• describe
• bias

The author writes to show or explain facts.

• inform
• entertain
• describe
• sensory words

The author writes to influence or convince the reader.

• persuade
• describe
• inform
• entertain

The author uses the five senses to tell about a topic.

• describe
• persuade
• explain
• perspective

The way the author views the topic of the text.

• perspective
• assumption
• sensory words
• entertain

The author writes about a fact or statement that is taken for granted.

• assumption
• persuade
• inform
• sensory words

The author writes about an attitude that always favors one way of feeling or acting over any other.

• bias
• inform
• describe
• sensory words

words that connects to the five senses to create an image or description.
thump, creamy, salty, cold, gurgle, blurred, twinkling

• sensory words
• fact
• inform
• sequencing words

words that identify order
First, Second, Next, Then, Finally, After that

• opinion
• sensory words
• sequencing words
• persuasive words