Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
4.10*
Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about the author's purpose in cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding. Students are expected to explain the difference between a stated and an implied purpose for an expository text.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
Figure:19.A*
establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension
4th 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