How do you determine the author’s purpose in a text

An author's purpose is the main reason he or she has for writing. The three basic purposes are to inform, to persuade, and to entertain.

Explanation: Be sure to make one for each “flavor” of an author's purpose (persuade, inform, entertain). Then begin to fill your pies: Read a variety of text with your students. Work with them to identify the author's purpose for writing the text.

when making an inference, the reader should be sure to support the inference with

evidence

a is an educated guess about what will happen.

c. prediction

when new information proves that a reader's prediction is wrong, the reader should

make a new prediction based on the new information.

where are the multiple choice answers?