• An author writes:

– To Entertain

– To Inform

– To Persuade
• Short Stories
• Poetry
• Fiction novels
• Plays
• Movies
• TV Shows
• Newspapers

• Bulletins

• Playbills

• Biographies
• Speeches

• Proposals

• Essays
• Facts are statements or statistics that
are proven true
• Opinions are ideas that someone
believes in strongly.
• When you are informing of something
– A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch
long tongue
• When you are persuading someone to
your idea
– 52% of people in America like chocolate ice
cream better than vanilla, so you should like
chocolate ice cream too
• When entertaining
– I think the time the Roadrunner made
Wiley Coyote fall of the cliff was the best
episode ever.
• When persuading
– I think cartoons are more fun to watch
than the news because cartoons do goofy
things, while the news just tells facts.
Choose the author’s purpose for each
passage (make sure you point out
if there are facts or opinions in
the passages too!!!)
I think that everyone should vote for
Stacy to be class president. She is more
involved in school than Sammy by 44%.
Stacy is a wonderful person who is always
cheerful and friendly, and I know she
will be the best president this school
could have.
Studies show that 5% of students learn
from lecturing, 10% learn from listening,
20% learn from reading, 30% learn
from activities, and 35% learn from
group work.
So, Little Red Riding Hood put on her
cloak and headed of to Granny’s house.
She was skipping through the woods,
when she saw some beautiful flowers
and stopped to pick some. Little did she
know that something was watching her
from the trees. A wolf stood in the
woods watching her, wanting very much
to eat her…