Using Authors Purpose Matching Activity, studentsmatch the text to the Author's Purpose activity card to explain why the author wrote the book.

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

Using this Author's Purpose Activity, students read and sort story idea cards to determine the author's purpose as to inform, entertain, or persuade.

Using Why Was it Written Author's Purpose Activity, students identify if the author wrote a text in order to answer, explain, or describe.

Using Authors Purpose Picture Sorting Activity, students identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.