STAAR Author's Purpose

What is the authors purpose in this writing:
_{First, you get the bread. Then, you get the jelly and peanut butter. Then, you get a butter knife and spread the jelly and peanut butter on separate pieces of bread. Lastly, put the two slices of bread together and BOOM! You got a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.}

• To explain

• To entertain

• To Inform

• To decribe

What is authors purpose????

• why the author likes to write

• What the author is writing

• Why the author is writing

• How the author writes

What is Pie'ed????

• Peace,Independent,

• HAPPY

• Persuade, Inform, entertain, Elmo, Disco party

• Persuade, Inform, entertain,explain, decsribe

A flyer by a candidate running for town mayor.

• Persuade

• Inform

• Entertain

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

• entertain

• inform

• describe

• bias

The author writes to influence or convince the reader.

• persuade

• describe

• inform

• entertain

The author instructs or tells how to do something.

• entertain

• fiction/literary

• describe

• explain

The author writes to show or explain facts.

• inform

• entertain

• describe

• sensory words

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