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Authors Purpose

and

Point of View


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What are our learning goals?

To understand and

identify the different

purposes of texts. To distinguish

between non-fiction

and fiction.

To understand how the

authorspoint of view

affects the text.


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What is the purpose?

Did you know that

everything you read

has a purpose? When an author writes

something (book,

magazine, textbook,

newspaper article),he/she chooses his/her

words for a purpose.


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What is the purpose?

The authors purpose

is the main reason that

he/she has for writingthe selection.

The authors purpose

will be to:

Entertain

Inform

Persuade


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What is the authors

point of view? When an author writes

to entertain,

persuade, orinform,he/she will have

his/herpoint of view

on the subject.

Point of view is anauthors opinion about

the subject.


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I know the purpose!

When you are able to

recognize the authors

purpose, you will havea better understanding

of the selection.

Also, the purpose will

determine how youread a selection.


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Can a selection have two purposes?

Some selections willhave two purposes.

For example, if thearticle is about eatinghealthy, it will try topersuade you to eatyour vegetables aswell as, inform youabout the differenttypes of food groups.


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Authors Purpose: Inform

If the authors purpose isto inform, you will learnsomething from the

selection. Information pieces

sometime use one or moreof the following:

Facts

Details/Instructions

Places

Events

People


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Authors Purpose: Persuade

If the authors purpose isto persuade, the authorwill want you to believe

his/her position. Persuasive pieces are

usually non-fiction.

Although there are facts, itcontains the authorsopinions.

With persuasive pieces, itis clear on the authors

point of view (if he/she is

FOR or AGAINST it).


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Authors Purpose: Entertain

If the authors purpose is

to entertain, one goal

may be to tell a story or to

describe characters, placesor events (real or

imaginary).

Examples of entertaining

texts include: plays,poems, stories, jokes, or

even comic strips..


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Determine the authors purpose

Use the information

on the bottle to

determine the authorspurpose.

A. To Inform

B. To Entertain

C. To Persuade


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Can you identify the authors

purpose? The correct answer is

A, to inform.

The label containedinformation and

instructions on how to

use the medicine.


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purpose?

His face appeared in the window. She knew he

had been the cause of her waking at 3 a.m. Was

she seeing things? Was his face real? She tried to

lie still and decide what to do. Just then, thewindow shattered. She flew across the room to

the hallway and straight into her mothers room.

Inform

Entertain

Persuade


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to entertain.

The author tried tocapture a suspenseful

mood in the story.

The story is probably

fiction.


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purpose? It is recommended that parents read to their

children everyday, starting as early as six

months of age. When you read with yourchildren, you are starting them off in life asa life-long reader and learner. It is never toolate to pick up a book and read; people in

their eighties have learned how to read anddiscovered the pleasure of reading. Turn offthe television and read a book!


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purpose? You can tell the

author wrote this

passage to A. Inform

B. Entertain

C. Persuade


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C, to persuade.

This is an emotionalappeal to do the rightthing: READ!

Also, the last sentence

tells you encouragesyou to do something:Turn off thetelevision


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What are the steps to determining the

authors purpose and point of view?1. Read the

selection

carefully.

2. Determine if the

selection isfiction or

nonfiction.


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What is Fiction?

A fictionpiece is from the authorsimagination and is not based on facts.

Fiction pieces will be stories. The purpose offiction is to entertain the

reader.

Fiction creates a mood, a feeling you getfrom reading the selection. The mood couldbe happy, sad, scary, angry, peaceful, etc


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What is Non-fiction?

Non-fiction pieces are based on facts and

authors opinions about a subject.

Non-fiction pieces could be biographies,articles from textbooks, newspaper and

magazine articles.

The purpose of non-fiction writing is toinform and sometimes to persuade.


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Purpose and Point of View

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