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Tell, Show and Share: The Author's Purpose

Questions: 5

Grade: 2

Words: 47

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One sunny day, three friends - Tell, Show, and Share wrote storybooks. Tell loved to teach about stars. Show made a funny circus story to entertain. Share shared a story about kindness. So, an author's purpose can be to teach, to entertain, or to share a lesson.

Question 1

What did Tell love to write about in his storybook?

Circus

Kindness

Stars

Explanation. Tell loved to teach about stars in his storybook.

Animals

Sports

Question 2

What was the purpose of Show's story?

To teach

To entertain

Explanation. Show made a funny circus story to entertain.

To share a lesson

To inform

To argue

Question 3

What lesson did Share share in his story?

Anger

Joy

Kindness

Explanation. Share shared a story about kindness.

Sadness

Excitement

Question 4

What can be an author's purpose based on the friends' stories?

To argue

To instruct

To entertain

Explanation. An author's purpose can be to teach, to entertain, or to share a lesson.

To criticize

To confuse

Question 5

Who wrote a story to teach?

Show

Tell

Explanation. Tell loved to teach about stars in his storybook.

None of them

All of them

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