Author’s Purpose

List below are key words or phrases.  Use the mouse to point to  the blue word and click one time.  The web site will open.  Read and decide if the author’s purpose is to inform, to entertain, to persuade, or to explain.  Some could even be more than one.   Write your answer. Give evidence to support your answer. ( A chart to record you answers on has been provided.  Scroll down to page 2 and print.)

1 Abraham Lincoln

2. Baby Harry

3. Walter Visits the Farm

4. Prudence Discovers a World of Difference

5 Arctic Animals

6. Painting

7. Campbell’s Soup

8. Cairn terriers

9. Chip shot

10. Change the face

11.     Pet Food

12.     Snoopy

13.     Clifford

14.     Weather

15.     Table and Chair