Reading Quick Check: Author's Purpose
Author's purpose quick check that works with any book: students choose whether the author wrote to answer, explain or describe, then write a sentence telling why.
- Year groups
- Years 3–4 (Key Stage 2)
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- Reading, English
- Topic
- Reading, Quick Check
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This resource is a Reading Quick Check: Author's Purpose.
If students have been learning about and applying author's purpose during reading, this quick check will serve as a great exit ticket or morning work.
This worksheet has 2 questions and can be used with any book.
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Learning objectives
Identify an author's purpose for writing a text
Support a choice of author's purpose with a reason
Skills covered
Explaining reasoning — writing a sentence that justifies the chosen purpose
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