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Authors Purpose Matching Activity

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Authors Purpose Matching Activity preview

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Author's Purpose cover with directions: gather several texts and match each one to an author's purpose activity card
Read the directions aloud before setting out the cards
Purpose cards for persuade, entertain, inform and explain, each word on a cartoon computer screen for text matching
Core purpose cards to cut apart for the matching center
More purpose cards: opinion, clarify, share a mood and share a story, for sorting texts by why the author wrote them
Extra cards to widen the set once the basic four are familiar
Four blank author's purpose cards with empty computer screens where students or teachers write their own purpose word
Blank cards for adding purposes of your own choosing
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Grades

Preschool, Kindergarten, Grade 1

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Activities

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This activity is great for helping students understand the author's purpose for writing a text. The cards can be used with any type of text, and the student has to match the text to the author's purpose. This is a great way to help students understand why an author writes a book.

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