An article about why people should always pay their taxes. This portion of the test measures your ability to determine the reason why the author is writing the article and how their experiences or beliefs are impacting their writing. To relate a story or to recount events, an author uses narrative writing. Your three options are persuade, inform, or entertain. An encyclopedia entry about endangered animals and efforts to protect them. I use old school scantron documents to conduct these quizzes, but feel free to modify this as desired. This assessment could be used before a unit, during, or after on authors purpose. Read each paragraph and then decide the authors purpose for writing. This quiz on authors purpose should be completed after our seventh lesson on realistic fiction. Authors purpose quiz fifteen questions testing students. Determine what the authors purpose for writing the story may be.
Answer key included please feel free to edit and use for your own personal use. An author writes with one of four general purposes in mind. Read the selection, and then answer the questions that follow. Read passages and write authors purpose activity master c. Authors purpose quiz 2 here are fifteen more multiple choice problems about authors. Read the description of each text and identify the main purpose of the author. This lesson will be taught tuesday, november, 2007. This quiz and corresponding worksheet gauge your understanding of authors purpose.
The practice questions assess your knowledge by asking you to identify the authors. Authors purpose quiz fifteen questions testing students ability to identify the authors purpose in a variety of texts. If you do not read through the key points for that day or pay attention in class, then you will not pass this quiz or the next progress check in class. Failing this quiz will significantly affect your grade for this english language arts class. A five paragraph essay where a student argues that people should recycle and not litter. Purpose is the reason an author writes about a topic. Free authors purpose lessons, activities, worksheets, quizzes, and more.
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