Author’s Purpose

Essential Question (EQ): How can we use Author’s Purpose to better understand a passage?

Why Author’s Write -

1. Inform

2. Persuade

3. Entertain

To whom do they write?Who might their audience be?

• Friend• Another student• Teacher• Adults• Young children• taxpayers

• Teenagers• Scientists• Doctors• Politicians• Criminals• voters

Brainstorming Non-fiction

• What is non-fiction?

• On a sheet of loose leaf, draw a large Circle Map

• In the center circle, write non-fiction

• FR – prior knowledge

Pair and Share

• Share with your table-mate (person next to you) what you wrote in your CM

• In a different color, add anything they have that you do not to your CM

Non-fiction Tree Map

• On the back of your CM, draw a Tree Map

• The title will be Types of Non-Fiction

• Frame of reference is CM and prior knowledge

• Each branch is one of the types of non-fiction you have in your CM

• Add two examples of each type under each branch

Accessing prior knowledge

• On a new sheet of loose leaf paper draw a large Circle Map

• In the small circle write Author’s Purpose• Divide the larger circle into three sections• Label them: entertain, persuade, inform• Using the Tree Map about non-fiction

sources as a resource, place those sources into the correct category you think they belong on your CM

Writing to Inform

• News articles• Textbooks• Biographies• Documentaries• Technical manuals• Charts, graphs, tables• Power Points• Recipes

To persuade

• To express an opinion to convince readers to think/feel/act a certain way

Writings that Persuade

• Posters• Billboards• Commercials• Letters/email

• Editorials• Advertisements• Campaign Speeches• Bumper Stickers

Writing to Entertain

• This is to illustrate a theme, event, or story that conveys a mood

Writing to Entertain

• Short Story• Poetry• Novel• Drama• Comedy• Riddles• Jokes• Song Lyrics