Author’s Purpose: Erosion Worksheet
By exposing your students to new texts and passages to read, you help them in a lot of ways. Your kids will not only get more practice with their reading skills, they will also learn new words, and get the information or knowledge which the author was trying to pass across. Help your kids read the simple and short passage in this worksheet. Then, look at the options provided and help your kids figure out and circle the author’s purpose of writing.
Required skills:
To resolve this worksheet, students should read a short passage and determine the author's purpose for writing it. They should understand that authors write for a reason, whether it is to inform, persuade, or entertain. They should also be able to identify keywords and phrases in the passage that help them determine the purpose.
