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.

- Grades
- Preschool–Pre-K, Grades 1–3, Elementary
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- ELA, Reading, Math, Numbers
- Topic
- Statistics, Author’s Purpose
- Resource types
- Activities
- Preparation
- Print ready
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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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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Classify examples of print by author's purpose: persuade, inform or entertain
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Core concepts
- Author's purpose
- Persuade
- Inform
- Entertain
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