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Created by V. S. Bell H. H. Beam Elementary School Gastonia, NC 28052

An author writes for many reasons. An author may give you facts or true information about a subject. If so, they are writing to inform. Some authors write fiction stories or stories that are not true. They write these stories to entertain you. Other authors may write to persuade or to try to get you to do something.

What is the author s purpose if the passage contains... Facts or true Information? to Inform or Teach Fiction? to Entertain Tries to get you to do something? to Persuade or Convince

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