Animal Myth Busters Author's Purpose Activity
Animal myth passages on frogs causing warts and ostriches hiding their heads in sand give students a nonfiction text for separating the author's point from the reasons and evidence behind it.
- Grades
- Grades 1–4, Elementary
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- ELA, Science, Life Sciences, Animals, Reading
- Topic
- Author’s Purpose, Independent and Guided Reading
- Resource types
- Literacy Readers, Teacher Tools
- Preparation
- Print ready
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What's inside this resource
Animal Myth Busters is an activity that helps students understand how an author uses evidence to support points in a text. By reading animal myths and analyzing the author's purpose, students will be able to better understand the author's reasoning behind the text. This activity is perfect for teachers who are looking for a way to help their students improve their reading comprehension skills.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Identify the author's main point in a nonfiction passage
- Distinguish the author's point from the reasons and evidence that support it
Skills covered
- Finding supporting evidence — listing the reasons each author gives for why a myth is false
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Core concepts
Core concepts
- Author's point
- Reasons and evidence
- Myths and facts
- Nonfiction text
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