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Author’s Purpose

Author’s Purpose All authors have a PURPOSE, or reason, in mind when they write. Knowing the author’s purpose will help you better understand what you are reading.

Author’s Purpose To help us remember the purposes, or reasons, an author may have… Just remember PIED! http: //www. youtube. com /watch? v=dx. Suw 0 Vqv k 4

Author’s Purpose • Authors may want to persuade. To persuade means to convince someone to act or think in a certain way. An advertisement written for the newspaper tries to convince reader’s to buy something.

Persuade

Author’s Purpose • Author’s may want to inform. A history book teaches about the past. A how-to book tells how to make or do something.

Inform

Inform

Author’s Purpose • Authors may want to Entertain. A chapter book can excite a reader. A joke book can make reader’s laugh.

Entertain

Knock, Knock! Entertain Who’s there? Cows who? No silly, cows

Author’s Purpose • Authors may want to describe something or someone to explain new places, persons, and things. A biography shows how a person lived.

Describe Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play big league baseball. At first, many people did not want African Americans to play with white Americans, but Jackie Robinson was a great player….

To determine the author’s purpose… • Find what the passage is mostly about. (Main Idea) • Look at the words the author chooses. Are they funny and entertaining? Are they trying to convince me of something? Does the author use lots of facts? • Use these clues to decide whether the author’s purpose is to persuade, inform, entertain, or to describe.

Always remember… PIED!! Persuade, Inform, Entertain, Describe