Authors Purpose Sorting Activity
After reading a book, students pick the author's purpose card that explains why the text was written, then discuss why the author wrote it that way.
- Grades
- Preschool–1, Elementary
- File type
- 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 to understand an author's purpose. It can be used with any text and is a great way to support students as they learn to identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
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Learning objectives
- Identify why an author wrote a text
- Explain reasons behind the way an author wrote a text
Skills covered
- Explaining author's purpose — discussing the reasons behind the card they chose
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- Author's purpose
- Persuade
- Inform
- Entertain
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