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Name: WEEK 11

Author’s Purpose DAY 2


READ THE ESSAY   Think about why the author wrote the essay.

Taco Tuesdays
Every Monday, fourth-grade students at Jackson Elementary have art class. Every
Tuesday, we have music class, and Wednesday is computer class. Each week, the class
schedule is the same. However, the cafeteria menu is not. The menu changes from week
to week, and the weekly menu that we are given is often wrong. The cafeteria should have
a menu that is the same each week and that offers delicious foods.
By having a menu that stays the same each week, students, teachers, and parents
would know what food to expect every day. This would help us know whether to bring a
lunch from home if we don’t like what is being served. Also, we wouldn’t need a new menu
printed out each week. This would save time and paper.
People might think that fourth-graders would get tired of eating the same thing every
week. But if the meals are fun and delicious, we won’t mind. Most of us would rather eat our
favorite foods again and again than have many kinds of foods that taste bad. For example,
everyone likes tacos. If every Tuesday was taco day, then we would enjoy coming to school
on Tuesdays more!
It’s not fun to go to lunch expecting hamburgers, only to be served creamed corn. And
it’s just as bad to bring a lunch from home because the menu said we’d be eating boiled fish
sticks when the cafeteria is really serving pizza. So let’s make the food better and the menu
predictable.

SKILL PRACTICE   Read each question. Fill in the bubble next to the correct answer.


 1.  What is the purpose of the essay?  3.  What is the author’s main point in the  
A to explain how to plan a menu third paragraph?
B to entertain you with stories about food A that fourth-graders will get tired of the
same food each week
C to persuade the school to change the menu
B that tacos should be served every day
D to teach you how to make tacos
C that good food is not boring
2.  Why does the author list classes that   D that Tuesday is a bad day
fourth-grade students take?
A to complain about the classes  4.  Where would the essay most likely appear?
B to show how the class schedule repeats A in a cookbook

C to persuade people to take more art classes B in a magazine about cooking

D to inform people of how fourth-grade C in a school newspaper


students spend their day D in a school yearbook

STRATEGY PRACTICE   Do you agree with the author? Why or why not? 

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