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Reading Skill: Author’s Purpose
Author’s purpose involves understanding the reason that the author
includes certain information in the passage. The author often provides facts
Complete the table with the correct phrases. or details that show why certain information is included in the passage.
However, the students must infer the author’s purpose in including those
facts or details.
Text evidence Author’s purpose
1. Alicia wants to test the to show why Alicia does not
skateboards in person. buy a skateboard online .
2. Customers can buy many to explain one of the features .
different things at one chain of a chain store
store.
3. Workers run machines that can
build thousands of skateboards to explain why the prices are .
quickly. lower at a chain store
why the prices are lower buy a skateboard online one of the features
Unit 11 | Shopping at a Chain Store
