Authors Purpose

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Authors Purpose

• Reading
• Grade 6

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Teacher Page

• Content Reading
• Grade Level 6
• Creator Jean Akerly
• Curriculum Obj.MAP Standard identify authors
  purpose

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Authors Purpose

• An author always has some purpose in mind for
  writing
• To entertain
• To inform
• To persuade

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To entertain

• From the novel The Great Gilly Hopkins
• In the tiny mirror over the bureau Gilly noted
  with no little satisfaction that her hair was a
  wreck. Yesterday before the bubble gum got into
  it, it had looked as though it simply needed
  combing. Today it looked like a lot that had been
  partially bulldozed-an uprooted tree here, a half
  wall with a crumbling chimney there. It was
  magnificent. It would run Trotter wild. Gilly
  bounced down the stairs and into the kitchen.

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To inform

• In planning for the use of our natural
  resources, it is helpful for people to know the
  kind of resources they are using. There are two
  groups, renewable and non-renewable resources.
  The renewable resources, such as plants, can re
  replaced as they are used. The non-renewable
  resources include the fossil fuels and minerals,
  which cannot be replaced.

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To persuade

• It is vitally important that each of us acts now
  to save our natural resources. The future of our
  planet depends on it. We must not allow any of
  these resources to be wasted. Write to your
  senators urging them to pass laws that will
  ensure that there will be plenty of fuel and
  clean air and water for future generations.

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Authors purpose?

• George Washington is called the Father of Our
  Country because he was the first president and
  one of the founders of America. Washington helped
  shape the beginning of the country. He commanded
  the Continental Army that won American
  independence for the British during the
  Revolutionary War.

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Authors purpose?

• Camera dealers say many amateur photographers
  should take better care of their cameras. Too
  often, people carelessly leave expensive cameras
  lying out where children or pets can get hold of
  them. They fail to put cameras back into the
  carrying cases that protect them.