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This activity includes 22 small passages written at about a 4th-5th grade level. With each passage is a question about the author's purpose for the passage.
Unlike most author's purpose worksheets, which only offer answers of the specific purpose, these answers include the purpose and the reason
Do your students understand author’s purpose at a higher level (way beyond entertain, inform and persuade)? Find out with this rigorous Author’s Purpose Test!
This author’s purpose resource is for grades 5-8 and contains one author’s purpose test using higher level questioning and two passages. A
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This is a second edition of an author's purpose test. I already created an author's purpose test, but made this second one when we revisited this skill. Both tests are about the same length, with questions of the similar difficulty.
5 separate passages. Mostly multiple choice, but with 3 open-ended response questions. Questions are designed to test the skill of author's purpose.
To assess your students knowledge on Author's Purpose (PIEED). There are 3 parts to this test:
Part 1: Matching - match the definition to the correct author's purpose.
Part 2: Multiple choice - read two passages and answer 2-part questions.
Part 3: Constructed response - Students must show their au
This is a Comprehension/Vocabulary test for MMH's Dig, Wait, Listen. There are 2 pages of Author's Purpose, 1 page of vocabulary application and 1 page of a review skill. This test does NOT contain any questions about the Toad story. It is all application of the skill of identifying the author's pur
Teaching author's purpose? Hold your students accountable with the Author's Purpose Test that addresses P-I-E: to persuade, to inform, or to entertain. This Common Core-aligned assessment will let you know in no time who is advanced, proficient, basic, and below basic in this important ELA skill.
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This is a test that can be used to assess students on Author's Purpose. It allows students to think critically and apply the concept.
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Teaching fractions is hard work and there are many teaching strategies that can help clear up misconceptions and help students think deeply about fractions, operations with fractions, equivalency, and other key understandings. If you are looking for professional development in this area, this video
Students will be able to identify different author's purposes for writing: persuade, entertain, and inform.
Great assessment to see if students can correctly identify the author's purpose
Test designed to assess students' understanding of author's purpose
Here are 24 cards to help your students practice determining the author's purpose. Each card features a short reading passage and the three multiple choice PIE options. Students are also asked to justify their answers. This activity is meant to be supplemental and should be used after your students
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Author's Purpose Bundle of Resources: This bundled product takes the PIE approach to teaching author's purpose a step further. Students are taught to determine whether an author's purpose is to persuade, inform, entertain, describe, or explain.
A note of explanation: I used to teach the well-known
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This Reading Skills Games Bundle III contains six different board games to help students practice author's purpose, fact or opinion, generalizations, point of view, text structure, and text features. Students will have a blast as they practice these key reading skills in a fun and engaging way!
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Author's Purpose Interactive Notebook Activity, Test, Posters, Task Cards: Persuade Inform Entertain Explain Describe
This Author's Purpose pack is for teaching the expanded 5 author's purposes: Persuade, Inform, Entertain, Explain, and Describe. Teach author's purpose with these 5 colorful posters
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Save money with this discounted set of Reading Strategy Task Card Sets for grades 2-5. Each set includes 24 cards, student recording sheet, and a colorful poster. In addition, the Author's Purpose set also includes an digital option. If you are buying all three sets, you can save money by purchasing
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Since different reading passages are written for different reasons, it’s essential to help students identify the author’s purpose while reading. In this 3-day mini-unit students will learn about the three main categories of author’s purpose. Through fun and engaging activities like an Author’s Pur
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Author's Purpose PowerPoint: This powerpoint contains 49 slides. It includes 5 types of author's purpose: persuade, inform, entertain, explain, and describe. It also includes a BONUS PowerPoint companion handout. Students can follow along on the handout, recording answers, as you progress through th
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This author's purpose resource contains 24 task cards. Each task card contains a short passage, followed by this question: "The author's primary purpose for writing this passage is most likely..."
Four multiple choice options follow the question stem.
I prefer teaching the five-option author's p
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Author's Purpose: This craftivity provides a fun way to practice identifying an author's purpose for writing a short passage using the more advanced PIE'ED method:
persuade
inform
entertain
explain
describe
Students will read the five short passages (check out page 2 of the preview to see the
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Students need practice to easily identify an Author’s Purpose for various texts, and this collection of 36 Author’s Purpose Task Cards / SCOOT Game and Quick Assessment will save you time as you differentiate instruction. Students identify the purpose of various texts (Persuade, Inform, or Explain)
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This Author's Purpose Board Game contains 30 game cards and a game board to help students practice determining the author's purpose (persuade, inform, or entertain) of writing a piece of text. This author's purpose game works great as a pair/group activity, or for use in literacy centers.
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These printable, no prep task cards for the secondary student focus on: persuade, inform, and entertain. Author's Purpose practice is gained using twenty original reading selections. (Cards are used twice for a total of 40 cards.)
Based on Common Core.RI.6.6, 7.6, 8.6, and 9-10.6
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This 26 slide interactive powerpoint takes the three parts of Author's purpose: to inform, to entertain, and to persuade and turns them into a fun interactive quiz. This is whiteboard ready! Students will love the 3D graphics and custom animations. This goes along great with my best selling Author
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This is a fun, creative, and engaging game to test your students' knowledge of identifying the author's purpose. The game is broken up into two different versions. Students will have fun examining each new fun and engaging slide while they determine if the author's purpose was to describe, entertain
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Author's Purpose PowerPoint Lesson and Test Prep
This 33 slide author's purpose PowerPoint is a thorough and solid lesson for the 3 main purposes: to persuade, to inform, and to entertain. Your students will find themselves engaged as they learn each purpose, and practice discerning between the t
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This bundle of resources contains several engaging activities you can use as you teach your students to identify the author's purpose for writing a passage. The PIE acronym is used throughout these resources; students will determine whether the author's purpose is to persuade, inform, or entertain.
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This secondary lesson focuses on the 3 purposes-- to inform, to entertain, and to persuade. Examples, practice, no prep printables, a PowerPoint, and more are included.
I created this PowerPoint, lesson plan, and worksheet for my observation, and my principal LOVED it. Consider using it for YOUR ev
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Take PIE to the next level- add explain and describe! Here's a hands-on game to practice author's purpose! Best of all, this version includes the more comprehensive FIVE author's purposes. (Get PIE-ED!)
persuade
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explain
describe
I created this because I wanted my upper elem
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Reading Comprehension Skills – Mini-Unit BUNDLE
Save with this bundle of Reading Comprehension Skills Mini-Units --- Drawing Conclusions, Author’s Purpose and Fact and Opinion.
Or...save even MORE with the MEGA BUNDLE of 9 Reading Comprehension Skills Mini-Units or the ULTIMATE BUNDLE of 12 Mini-U
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Identifying author’s purpose and analyzing text types for bias are reinforced throughout Common Core’s Reading Informational Text Standards. Not only can these resources be used to introduce or review these topics, they will reinforce student learning through application. This purchase will provide
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Author's Purpose Posters, Task Cards, Foldable, Test: Persuade Inform Entertain
This unit is for teaching the PIE method of 3 types of author's purpose - persuade, inform, and entertain.
If you're looking for resources to teach the expanded 5 types of author's purpose you can find that unit here.
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This PowerPoint consists of 24 animated slides, each with a paragraph for students to use to determine the author's purpose. Each slide also includes the answer, which is revealed with a click.
This would be a great activity to use with the whole class. Students can answer verbally, on individual
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I created this poster set FREEBIE for teachers who want to teach their students the more advanced version of Author's Purpose: PIE'ED!
persuade
inform
entertain
explain
describe
I used to teach this skill using the PIE method, but quickly realized that my 4th and 5th grade students were not
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Author's purpose is important for students to learn and practice! Let them have fun and review with this engaging game that will make the skill of determining the author's purpose something students WANT to do! Works great for literacy centers or small group. Students will be begging to practice aut
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Top 10 seller! This 23 slide interactive powerpoint covers the three parts of Author's purpose, Including: to inform, to entertain, and to persuade. Newly Added is an interactive Notebook element so the students can have some information in their notes in a fun and interactive way! Students will lov
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When I look over my students' shoulders during standardized tests, I notice a LOT of questions about author's purpose. They are being asked to read short snippets of text, then identify the main goal of the author. Is it to persuade? inform? entertain? I developed this mini-unit because my students
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This engaging activity puts a fun spin on reviewing the five author's purposes for writing! Author's Purpose is a concept that I have to revisit with my students throughout the year, so I created this version to do with my students at the beginning of April- right before state testing! It also mak
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Author's Purpose: Here's a hands-on way to practice author's purpose! It also makes a creative bulletin board or school hallway display!
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I have used this version with my 2nd and 3rd grade students. (I take it a step further and use the PIE'ED version {CLICK HERE.} w
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This packet contains 10 pages:
4 pages (4 passages) focus on MAIN IDEA
-For each passage, they will answer two multiple choice questions.
1. "Which of the following sentences best states the main idea
of the passage?"
2. "Which would be the best title for this passage?
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This eight question quiz has your students read the passage and choose the correct author's purpose to go along with it.
Great as a quick test of their skills :-)
Enjoy!
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These four print-and-go tri-folds target the skill of determining the author's purpose. Use these author's purpose tri-folds over the course of 4 days to provide targeted instruction on this topic.
As I was creating these tri-folds, I pictured myself using them with small groups of students. Specif
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These 32 reading Task Cards are focused on the Author's Purpose and will help your students practice identifying the three main types of author purposes. Students will read engaging scenarios on each card and determine whether the author's purpose was to persuade, to inform, or to entertain.
This
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If you're looking for a fun, interactive, jam packed unit to teach or supplement your author's purpose skill work, you've found a contender! :) In this unit, you will find several activities to practice author's purpose as well as ideas for uses and differentiation among them. The set focuses on the
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There are five reading passages for students to practice identifying the author's purpose. The students will have to determine the author's purpose in a complete sentence, not just persuade, inform, or entertain.
The five reading passages have one or two comprehension questions, and then the stude
This 20 slide interactive powerpoint covers the three parts of Author's purpose, Including: to inform, to entertain, and to persuade with a Christmas holiday/snow theme! Students will love the vibrant 3D clipart and custom animations. It is designed as a lecture, but has several interactive slides
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This powerpoint is colorful, adorable, and includes great video examples to keep your students engaged while learning about the author's purpose!
Includes:
-24 editable slides with animation, adorable clipart, and a variety of backgrounds
-11 embedded video clips, along with website links:
* 3 ar
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This is a handy tool for your students as a review prior to testing or to play Scoot. These 2 sets are designed for scaffolding and differentiation.
In this file you will find:
48 TASK CARDS (OR TWO SETS OF 24 TASK CARDS) IN SPANISH
- 24 cards for identifying purpose of different types of writin
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This is two pages about author's purpose to include in your students' interactive notebooks. The first page is the explanation of author's purpose using the PIE acronym. The second page is the "interactive" piece. The students are given three different snippets of a passage about pandas, each wit
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Author's purpose is important for students to learn and practice! Let them have fun and review with this engaging game that will make the skill of determining the author's purpose something students WANT to do! Works great for literacy centers or small group. Students will be begging to practice aut
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This is a great way to assess Author's Purpose. There are four passages for the students to read independently. The students have to decide if the passage was written to inform, entertain, or persuade. The students are then required to pick how they were informing, entertaining, or persuading.
Thi
This is a fun, interactive presentation that will help your students learn how to determine an author's purpose. You can use this on a projector or SmartBoard. Students can answer questions by clicking on objects or answer aloud and teacher can manipulate the presentation. This presentation goes
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