Evaluating Authors Purpose

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Evaluating Authors Purpose

• Why do authors write a story???

ELA Key Strategy 2
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Authors Purpose

• Think about P.I.E.
• Authors write a story for three reasons
• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain

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Persuade

• When an author tries to persuade the reader, they
  want you to think the way they think.
• Visiting museums are a great way to learn. At
  the museum you can read about facts while looking
  at different exhibits. Everyone should visit a
  great museum once in a while.

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Inform

• When an author writes to inform a reader, they
  are giving the reader facts and information.
• Elmont is located in New York State. New York is
  on the eastern coast of the United States of
  America. Some students in Elmont attend the
  Covert Avenue School.

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Entertain

• When an author tries to entertain the reader,
  they want you to enjoy what you are reading.
• My brother came charging at me with the pie in
  his hand. He smashed it right into my face.
  Laughing, I picked up his bowl of cereal and
  dumped it on my kid sisters head. Then, mom
  came into the kitchen.

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Why did the author write this paragraph?

• Every time I go to sleep, I hear a noise under my
  bed. I think it is a monster, but I am not sure.
  I call out to my mother and father, but all I
  hear is silence. Quickly, I pretend its nothing
  and pull the covers up over my head.
• The author wrote this paragraph to ENTERTAIN us.

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Try this

• Click on the link below and try to determine why
  the author wrote each paragraph
• Author's Purpose Activity

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How My Family Lives In America

• We are going to read the next story in our
  reading textbook. When we are finished, we are
  going to decide why the reader wrote the story
  (authors purpose) and how we know that.

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Why did the author write the story?

• The author wrote the story How My Family Lives in
  America to us. We know this
  because,

INFORM
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You did it!!!