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    DEMONSTRATING YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF AUTHOR’S PURPOSE

     



     A Formative Assessment (We Do, You Do)





    A Summative Assessment (You Show)

     

    The main purposes an author uses when writing are:
    1. to persuade
    2. to entertain
    3. to describe
    4. to inform, explain, demonstrate
     
    1. Read the selection.
    2. Determine the author’s purpose for writing the selection.
    3. Complete the following skills sheet to demonstrate your knowledge of the reading target “Author’s Purpose”.
     


    The author’s purpose for this selection is to ________________ the reader. I can support my choice by the following three pieces of evidence from the text.
    1. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
     
    2. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
     
    3. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
     




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