Author’s Purpose

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

2. Why Author’s Write - • Inform • Persuade • Entertain

3. Friend Another student Teacher Adults Young children taxpayers Teenagers Scientists Doctors Politicians Criminals voters To whom do they write?Who might their audience be?

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. News articles Textbooks Biographies Documentaries Technical manuals Charts, graphs, tables Power Points Recipes Writing to Inform

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

10. Posters Billboards Commercials Letters/email Editorials Advertisements Campaign Speeches Bumper Stickers Writings that Persuade

11. Writing to Entertain • This is to illustrate a theme, event, or story that conveys a mood

12. Writing to Entertain • Short Story • Poetry • Novel • Drama • Comedy • Riddles • Jokes • Song Lyrics