Author’s Purpose



Author’s Purpose

Might be to

✓ Entertain

✓ Inform

✓ Persuade

Targets for an author’s purpose journal response follow the rubric and must include:

• Topic sentence that identifies the author’s purpose.

• A second sentence explaining how the author is entertaining you.

• Following sentences are examples from the text to support your choice. A qualifying sentenced may be needed to really make your evidence strong! Page numbers are always needed

• Two pieces of text evidence are needed

• Your wrap up supports your topic sentence

• Check final responses against your reading rubric

humorous adventurous mysterious suspenseful scary fantasy historical fiction surprising science fiction

In the book Breadcrumbs the author wrote this book to entertain us. We believe there is a great deal of fantasy in this book. In the chapter called Mirror, there is a story describing how a mythical creature called Mal flew a magical mirror that took beautiful things and made them ugly and took ugly things and make them hideous up into the sky until is cracked. Once the mirror broke, it sent a million pieces of glass down into the world where shards landed in trees, turning their bark black while another landed in the eye of a boy. The Snow Queen watched all of this and said simply “interesting. (pg. 71). In addition, Jack witnessed the Snow Queen emerge at the edge of a forest in a swirl of snow. It was like a small tornado that began to whirl around faster and faster until she appeared before his very eyes! (pg. 93) She enticed him to enter her sleigh and told him she would take him to a place “where there were extraordinary things! things that could give you your heart’s desire! Things that are much grander than those that can be found in this small world.” (pg. 96) It will be interesting to learn what happens to Jack as he enters this mythical world.

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