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Type: Multiple-Choice
Category: Author's Purpose
Level: Grade 8
Standards: CCRA.R.6, RI.8.6, RST.6-8.6
Author: szeiger
Created: 9 years ago

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Grade 8 Author's Purpose CCSS: CCRA.R.6, RI.8.6, RST.6-8.6

The author opens the passage with a question. The purpose of this question is to:
  1. get readers to think back to their childhood art skills.
  2. explain why the sun looks like a yellow circle.
  3. introduce instruction on how to draw the sun.
  4. provide a contrast for the actual composition of the sun.