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Authors Purpose Sorting Activity

Using Author’s Purpose Sorting Activity, students identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.

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How to teach Author’s Purpose

Using Author’s Purpose Sorting Activity, students identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.

Understanding the reason why an author wrote a text supports your students’ comprehension as they read. This activity gives them the opportunity to match the descriptions to each reason why an author writes.

Students read a book. Next, choose an Author’s Purpose Card that tells why the author wrote the text. Then, discuss reasons why the author wrote the text in that way.

Other resources to use with this Author’s Purpose Sorting Activity

If you are using this activity, your students are probably learning about author’s purpose.

Use this Author’s Purpose and Supporting Evidence Worksheet as an additional resource for your students.

Introduce this activity by listening to the Have Fun Teaching Author’s Purpose Song. Next, students share what they know about author’s purpose. Then, students complete the activity individually or with a partner. Finally, students share about the authors and illustrators they learned about. Once finished, students continue their practice using the provided worksheet.

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