Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking:
ELA.3.R.2.3
Explain the development of an author's purpose in an informational text.
3rd Grade Reading - Author's Purpose Lesson
Author's Purpose
When authors write, they have a specific purpose in mind. They want a text to affect the reader in some way. This is known as the author’s purpose. Authors write texts for many different purposes.
These are common types of author’s purposes:
Teach: has steps in a process and directions
Entertain: uses humor, narration, tells a story, etc.
Inform: uses mainly facts and information
Persuade: tries to get the reader to believe, think, feel, or do something