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What is the author's purpose in writing a joke book? What about a book about the digestive system? Explore author's purpose with a worksheet that challenges kids to identify whether ten books are meant to entertain, inform, or persuade.
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Instructional Ideas
- Have kids choose a number of books from different sections of the library, and determine the author's purpose of each book
- Include in a language arts assessment when discussing different writing types
- Use as homework or writing review
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- Comes with an answer key for easy assessment
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