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Worksheet Description

Read the assigned text, then ask and answer the following questions. Your answers to these questions will point you towards the author’s purpose in what you are reading.

1. Do you think the people in the story are real?
2. Does the author make something easier to understand?
3. Did you learn facts from what you read?
4. Did the author make the reading enjoyable?
5. Did the author teach you something?
6. Did the text have interesting characters that make you
want to know more about them?
7. Did the author try to convince you of something?