Help your students go beyond just identifying the author's purpose in a text or passage, and instead be able to explain and justify why. This resource includes 1 passage for students to read, identify the purpose, and explain why that is the purpose. If you're looking for multiple passages, check out the full version of this product which includes 6 passages (2 for each genre: persuade, inform, and entertain), as well as an interactive notebook page. I modeled the questions from the type my stud