1. Everglades Forever Restoring America’s Great Wetlands
Lesson 8

2. Authors Purpose To Persuade… To Inform… To Entertain…
The author writes to give you information about a topic
The author writes to get you to do something or believe what they are saying
The author writes to tell you a story that you enjoy!

3. Authors Purpose Partner Read “Everglades Forever”
What is the authors purpose for writing the selection? (To Persuade, To Entertain, or To Inform)
Find text evidence (details or examples) that show the authors purpose

4. Authors Purpose
The authors purpose of Everglades Forever is to inform and persuade.
She wants us to believe “it is important to protect the Everglades.”
Find details/REASONS the author gives to support her purpose for writing.

5. Domain-Specific Vocabulary
Words that are directly related to a topic that show knowledge of a particular subject in an informational text.
Think of your Vocabulary Words from your Science and Social Studies textbooks!
Can you find Domain-Specific Words?

6. Examples of Domain-Specific Vocabulary
migrated
endangered
elevation
wetlands
Brackish
thermoregulate
Slough

7. Domain Specific Vocabulary
Habitat- a natural living environment for animals.
Elevation- distance above sea level, or on higher ground
Thermoregulate- to regulate or control body temperature
Brackish-rainwater and salty, muddy ocean water mixed together

8. Prefixes :en-, re-, pre-, -pro
en- “put in”
encage engulf
re- “again”
reappear remove reread
pre- “before
pretest prepaid preview
pro- “in front of/forward”
proactive proceed propellar