RI.4.8 Fourth Grade Common Core Lesson
Using RI.4.8 Fourth Grade Common Core Lesson, students explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text.
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How to teach Author’s Purpose
Using RI.4.8 Fourth Grade Common Core Lesson, students explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text.
Understanding the reason why an author wrote an informational text supports your students’ comprehension as they read. This lesson gives them the opportunity to find text supports to match the author’s points in a text.
This RI.4.8 Fourth Grade Common Core Lesson includes RI.4.8 Worksheets, RI.4.8 Activities, RI.4.8 Assessment, and RI.4.8 Poster. Each Common Core Lessonsincludes Common Core Worksheets, Activities, Assessment, and Poster that you can usefor teaching and assessing the standard.
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If you are using this lesson, your students are probably learning about author’s purpose.
Use this Author’s Purpose Activity as an additional resource for your students.
Introduce this activity by listening to the Have Fun Teaching Author’s Purpose Song. Create an anchor chart with your students with the different reasons why authors write for them to use during their work time. Then, students complete activity individually or with a partner. Finally, students continue their practice using the provided worksheet.
Be sure to check out more Author’s Purpose Resources and the entireFourth Grade Common Core Workbook.
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