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Learning author’s purpose is a great way for your students to understand their text. The author’s purpose reading passages in this resource will prepare your students to identify why an author wrote the text in front of them. Knowing the author’s reasoning will prepare them to understand more about what they are reading.
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Identifying author’s purpose helps your students find the meaning of why a text was written. Knowing this will help them prepare for what they will read. These author’s purpose reading passages give your students plenty of practice as they determine if the text was written to persuade, inform, or entertain the reader.
Practicing author’s purpose is easy with all the resources included. With the reading passages, the bookmark, the games, and the graphic organizers, your students have multiple opportunities to determine the author’s purpose. This will further their understanding of the text by knowing why the author wrote the story.
They’ll love completing the author’s purpose reading passages, then playing one of the four games included: “Memory”, “Four Corners”, “Around The Room”, or “PIE”. If you’re short on time, exit tickets are great to quickly check your student’s understanding of author’s purpose. And when you’re ready, there is a formal assessment to complete your author’s purpose reading unit.
These author’s purpose reading passages have several ways to practice this reading comprehension strategy. Here’s how to teach author’s purpose using this resource.
Introduce your students to the author’s purpose reading comprehension skill with a bookmark that acts as a portable anchor chart. Print them on bright paper and send them home with library books or laminate and add them to your independent reading centers. The bookmark reminds students that reading passages can be written to persuade, inform, or entertain. Keep your bookmarks handy as your students learn why an author writes a text.
Graphic organizers are great for teaching reading comprehension. And they’re versatile too! With these author’s purpose graphic organizers and your favorite read-aloud, your students will decide if the text was written to persuade, inform, or entertain. Use the graphic organizers as you’re introducing your students to the author’s purpose reading skill. Then, as you gradually release the responsibility to your students, the graphic organizers are great for independent or partner reading.
The author’s purpose reading passages can be used to introduce or practice the reading skill. Great for your whole classroom, or at your literacy center, these reading passages help your students identify the reason why the author wrote the text.
There are 8 author’s purpose passages included. 4 of the stories are fiction, 4 are non-fiction. Here are more details:
As teachers, we want our digital activities to be meaningful. The digital resource included is engaging and interactive with several author’s purpose examples. Students read along with each story, then identify the reasoning behind the author writing the text. Another great method for teaching reading comprehension.
Author’s Purpose is difficult for students to learn. They need to practice looking at the text and putting themselves into an author’s shoes. This is tricky for younger readers who are just learning to read the words on the page. The four games allow students to see how knowing the author’s purpose will get their brain ready to learn what they will be reading.
Here are the author’s purpose games included:
Exit tickets are perfect if you have a short amount of time to check if your students understand the concept of author’s purpose. Print the exit tickets on bright paper, or even better, use the included sticky note printer template to print the author’s purpose exit tickets onto a sticky note. Add a blank posterboard to your walls for your students to place their sticky note exit tickets! Either way you use them, these exit tickets will tell you quickly who has an understanding of author’s purpose and who needs more practice.
When you are ready to assess your students, use the formal assessment provided. The story “Owning A Pet Fish” was written specifically for the author’s purpose skill. The 4 reading comprehehension questions show if your students can identify the reason the author wrote the text. There is a final open ended prompt for them to explain how they knew the author’s purpose.
As teachers, we know that your students need multiple ways to practice a new reading skill. As teachers of young students, we also know that it needs to be fun and engaging. These author’s purpose reading passages, graphic organizers, printable bookmark, games, and assessments will highlight the reading skill but in a fun way for your students.
Many times, we cannot find the right reading passages to “fit” the particular reading strategy when we are teaching reading comprehension strategies. The reading passages, as well as the other resources included focus directly on teaching your students to identify the author’s purpose while reading. Focusing on the specific skill in isolation first will help your students as they practice author’s purpose on their own.
Adding the author’s purpose to your reading comprehension lesson plan will help your students identify why the author wrote the text. Practicing finding the author’s purpose with this resource will enable your students to learn this skill so they can critically think about future text. Grab your author’s purpose reading passages today!
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