Author's Purpose
Name the 3 types of Author's Purpose.
What is Persuade, Inform, Entertain?
Person, place, thing or idea is a -
What is a Noun?
The girls' are nice.
What is girls?
This goes with a photograph.
This has lines and stanzas.
What is poetry?
In a non-fiction text, like your Science or Social Studies book, what is the Author's Purpose?
What is Inform?
An adjective modifies or describes this.
What is a Noun?
The dog's bowl is blue?
What is question mark?
This might be on a diagram with arrows pointing to an object.
What are labels?
This has text features like headings and diagrams.
What is non-fiction?
In this genre - the author's purpose is almost always to Entertain.
What is Fiction?
A verb does this.
What is an action?
I blue out the candles on my cake.
What is blew?
This is a baby title and tells what each section is about in a non-fiction text.
What is a heading?
This uses rhythm and rhyme.
What is poetry?
Forest fires can be dangerous. You can help by making sure not to burn on windy days. Make sure to honor the conditions of a burn-ban. Never throw lit cigarettes out of the car window. Make sure you have proper enclosures around your campfire. You too can prevent forest fires!! What is the Author's Purpose?
What is Persuade?
Anywhere a cat can go.
What is a preposition?
All three of the boy's books were missing.
This is in the back of the book and gives definitions.
What is a glossary?
This has characters, a setting, and a plot.
What is fiction?
The Acronym or memory trick used for Author's Purpose.
Mr. Morton is the ___ of the sentence.
What is the subject?
I love to sing in the rian.
What is rain?
This is in the front of the book and gives page numbers for chapters.
What is a table of contents?
This type of fiction could really happen.
What is realistic fiction?