Author's 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.
- Year groups
- Nursery–Reception (Early Years), Years 1–2 (Key Stage 1)
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- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Numbers, Reading, Maths, English
- Topic
- Statistics, Author’s Purpose
- Resource types
- Activities
- Preparation
- Print ready
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About this resource
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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