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This week we are beginning to learn about author’s purpose. Authors write for many reasons. An author may write to persuade or try to get you to do something. They may write to give you facts or to inform you on a subject. Other authors write fiction stories from their imaginations to entertain you.

Read for 20 minutes. Record the Title of your book and the Author’s name. Then write to tell me why you think the the author wrote your book. Was it to persuade you, to inform you of something, or to entertain you? Give me a reason why you picked that purpose.

Example: I read Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White. I think the author wrote this book to entertain the readers. I think this is the purpose because the characters are fictional and can talk to each other. The story is also from the author’s imagination.