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Authors Purpose Picture Sorting Activity

Author's purpose picture sort: students place pictures such as ad slogans, fiction book covers and nonfiction book covers under Persuade, Inform or Entertain.
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Preschool–Pre-K, Grades 1–3, Elementary
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Updated Oct 13, 2026

Subject
ELA, Reading, Math, Numbers
Topic
Statistics, Author’s Purpose
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This activity is great for helping students to identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text- a key reading comprehension skill. It can be used with any text, and is a great way to add some variety to your instruction.

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Learning objectives

  • Classify examples of print by author's purpose: persuade, inform or entertain

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  • Author's purpose
  • Persuade
  • Inform
  • Entertain

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