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Join me for a video lesson on understanding author's purpose. You may be wondering why it is important for us to think about the author’s purpose or reason for writing. If you understand why an author wrote a piece, it will help you to better comprehend what you’re reading. The more you understand the text, the more you’ll get out of the reading experience.

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hello everyone good afternoon today I'd like to talk about author's purpose now in the next package reseeding there's going to be some activity seats are required for child the reasons why an author has written a text why is it important for us to understand the author's purpose or his reason for writing will you understand why an author wrote something it will help you to better comprehend what you're reading and the more you understand the text the more you'll get out of your reading it let's take a look at a PowerPoint that I have on author's purpose and going to share my screen with you so we can take a look at it together officer a lot like Baker's a baker author creates a piece of writing for others to read and enjoy so there are three main reasons we're going to be so kissing on here in second grade set author's reasons the authors write the first one she persuade next is to inform and last the entertainment the one we think about author's purpose I want you to think of the word pie persuade inform and entertain take a look at each one a little more closely so an author might write a piece to persuade you maybe he or she wants to convince the reader to do something or to agree with his or her thinking I'm going to read an advertisement for pennies pie what's a stinker season 2-1 of pennies mouth-watering pie out 10 flavors just $10 each, 71223 the author's purpose for writing this advertisement it persuades you but what is the author trying to persuade you to do think about it for a moment I hope all of you realize author was trying to persuade you to buy one of Penny's mouth-watering pie yes or no example of persuasion every single day about 3,000 kids and teens start smoking cigarettes if you are one of those kids who think smoking book School think again there are many reasons why you first people who smoke have more cold smoking a rat clothes smell bad and it turns your teeth also has a lot of money to smoke a pack of cigarettes cost about $6 smoke or two by two packs a week spent over $600 on cigarettes in a year obviously smoking is not a good thing so let's take a moment why do you think the author wrote this piece neither wants to persuade you what does he want to persuade not do the author is trying to persuade the reader to agree that smoking is a really bad idea can I freeze it off I may write something is to inform you now look at the word inform that is a small part of a bigger word think about it for a second warmest part of the word information Oscar Mike write something to give readers or true information about a subject listen to this piece wolf live in Hut compact thumbtacks had just a couple of other packs are quite large and have about 20 most packs have an alpha pair one team yell is the R34 produces pot when a wolf puppet form it takes to participate in the Alsip are also lead each time a pack of wolves hunt together they can kill large animal like a moose animal the Alsip are always first the author wrote this shooting formats where to give us actual information take a moment to think about what we were supposed to be getting information about that's right the author is giving you information about wolf packs listen to this next passage Mary Pope Osborne is the author of the pause popular Magic Tree House series Shiro Dinosaurs Before Dark the first book in The Magic Treehouse Series in 1992 when she first started this. He had planned to ride just for books however many teachers and students wrote to her and got her to add more books to the series so she agreed to write for more then after meeting Warren Raiders and degree to eat and even warmer Siri now there are more than 50 book in The Magic Treehouse series so the author's purpose of writing his peace was to give us information what were you getting in for that's right the author is giving information about Mary Pope Osborne and the Magic Tree House books the fence has it can be tricky to tell you're not the author is trying to persuade you to make you feel a certain way or to inform you about something remember when the author is trying to harm you only stocks are going to be still when an author is trying to persuade you something you're going to try to think like him or her and to do this the author may include some fat but they're also statements didn't you have something to feel a certain way or sustain a certain way the next one in the final when they were going to be talking about today the author wants to give something gives the reader something they will enjoy reading fiction books are written for entertainment purposes books written to entertain a motion is possible books written for entertainment let's check out a passage on entertainment when the author's purpose is to entertain they usually write books that have setting dialogue which is the conversation the talking elements in a story a beginning middle and also an end here's the passage that we are going to read it after you're listening to me read this passage I went to the be thinking about the characters see if you can identify this setting and see if you can take out the dialogue characters of talking back and forth Hannah remained at her desk while her classmates left the classroom and headed for the playground when Alaskan had last mrs. linster turned Anna you're not trouble Hannah what is a talk to you about your grades have done very well in your last 3 spelling test and I looked down at her desk I know my mom got a new job or she works at night and my big sister doesn't want to. I see I'm going to show you a way where you can practice your words on your own characters the main characters in this text or Hannah and this is Lancaster where does the story taking place what was the setting they were in the classroom finally what were the Talking part of this check the conversation or dialogue that they characters Hannah monster we're having between one another notice how they begin with quotation mark I mean also ends with quotation marks that signals to a reader that. Character has stop talking now we're going to listen to a little preview you a little quiz to see if you can figure out what the author's purpose was for reading I remember her doing exercises that help I weather for persuade Chase's rating a notch the history of baseball what was the author's purpose for writing this book nonfiction and nonfiction is actual information it is something that is true and not made up how to take a minute and see if you can figure out the reason the author wrote is p apology chose letter B form again the clear was this was a nonfiction book and you all know that non-fiction provides factual information about a topic the next one he is reading a joke book what was the author's purpose for writing this book persuade be to inform or C4 entertainment okay boys and girls I hope all of you circled letters c entertainment a joke book is meant to be written to make you laugh and it's supposed to be an enjoyable reading experience next one Juan is reading a book about a boy that invented a time machine and travel 50 years into the future what was the author's purpose for writing this book persuade entertain ask yourself is the author trying to convince you to do certain way or to do something ask yourself are you learning factual information about a topic I'll actually like I think are you waiting for pleasure are you being entertained or entertained as you are reading this story about my machine and traveling into the future go ahead and take a moment to think about your response that's cracked this story was written for entertainment purposes the next time we're going to listen to it stop Kayla Kayla just finished reading an article that listed ways kids could help take care of our planet decided that she wants to do the things the author listed what was the author's purpose for writing this article take a moment to think about the reason the author may have written when the police statements in this text she has decided that she wants to do the thing the author listed I hope all of you selected persuade because the author was trying to persuade Kayla to take care of the planet by doing the listed suggest active Max Allen is fascinated by dinosaurs right now he's reading a book that tells possible reasons why dinosaurs became what was the author's purpose for writing this book again ask yourself is the author trying to make you feel or do something if so that would be to persuade are you learning information about a specific topic if so then you would what day is the author writing a piece for entertainment purposes no I didn't take a moment to think about this I hope all of you selected inform okay the author was writing this piece to inform the reader as to something resistor how dinosaurs became extinct apologize Tyra is reading a chapter book where the main character's parents died and now he is living with his evil Uncle Tyra field worry for the main care what was the author's purpose for writing and again the author wrote this for entertainment purposes sometimes books are written for entertainment they might make you feel happy I make you feel scared or suspenseful books are written in that style they're meant for entertainment Alan next and last one and we are going to talk about is Henry Henry is on a vacation with his family be stopped at a rest area and he started reading a brochure about a nearby cave Henry thinks it looks awesome so he shows his parents the brochure and setting I just stopped at the cave for a tour his purpose for writing the brochure is the author trying to convince Henry to do something or to feel a certain way is the author giving you actual information about or the author provide me some kind of entertainment to read or possibly scared or suspense concerned annulment the author was trying to persuade the reader to go stop okay that's a little recap everyone going to close this screen out and here's our little recap the three reasons that authors write a piece could be to persuade the reader entertain you understand why it is an author has written something it will help you to better enjoy what you're reading and also help you understand more about what the text is about play ladies and gentlemen I hope this help you out as you go through our next packet through distance learning again this was on author's purpose if you have any further questions please don't hesitate to reach out to me at USA at Apollo Ridge, you can always email me reach me on ClassDojo and I'll get back to you as quickly as possible take care of you I wish you well

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