Author's Purpose Sort

Read each box. Figure out if the author's purpose is to PERSUADE, INFORM, or ENTERTAIN. Persuade a billboard for a fast food place with a picture of a giant, juicy hamburger. an article trying to get you to vote for someone a letter to the principal trying to convince her to make recess longer a letter to mom or dad trying to get them to pay you more for chores a text to mom trying to get her to agree to let a friend spend the night Inform has facts gives real information a biography (a book that is a real, true book about a person's life) a book that gives facts about lions an article in the newspaper about the weather next week a factual book about the Statue of Liberty a book about shark habitats Entertain not real fictional make believe a book about talking unicorns Diary of a Wimpy Kids Series Junie B. Jones series Harry Potter series a book that could happen in real life, but it is made up