Authors Purpose Matching Activity
Students decide why an author wrote a text and match it to one of eight purpose cards, including persuade, inform, entertain, explain and share a mood.
- Grades
- Preschool–1, Elementary
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- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- ELA, Reading, Math, Numbers
- Topic
- Statistics, Author’s Purpose
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- Activities
- Preparation
- Print ready
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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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- Texts to match are not included; gather several short texts with clearly different purposes before starting.
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- Author's purpose
- Persuade
- Inform
- Entertain
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