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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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Also included in: Author's Purpose PTA Skills Bundle
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.
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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Also included in: Reading Strategies Task Card Mini Bundle: Author's Purpose, Connections, Summary
This author's purpose bundle is designed to teach upper elementary and middle school students about an author's purpose for writing a literary piece in a way that will keep them engaged. This bundled product takes the PIE approach to teaching author's purpose to the next level. Students are taught t
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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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Also included in: Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions - 12 Mini-Units - Ultimate Bundle
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 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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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 9-10.6Included are: ----2
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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: 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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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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Also included in: Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions {Point of View, Author's Purpose...}
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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Also included in: Reading Skills Scoot Task Card Bundle for grades 2-3
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