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- Grade Range
- 6th
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Students use short reading passages to identify, explain, and discuss the author's purpose for writing. After a lecture/demo, students utilize a graphic organizer imbedded in this plan to organize their writing ideas. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students examine newspaper articles, comic books, cookbooks, encyclopedias, and other forms of written materials, discussing the authors' purposes for writing. They read teacher-selected articles and write an explanation of the author's purpose. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten
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Students analyze various types of writing (newspaper articles, magazines, books, advertisements, etc.) and determine if the author's purpose of writing was to inform, persuade or entertain the reader. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students examine and discuss nonfiction as a genre while deciding what the author's purpose for this type of writing. They write an essay showing their understanding of the genre. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 6th
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Students examine classic fairy tales and their variations. They read and view a variety of fairy tale versions, compare and contrast the author's purpose and use of motifs and use an interactive website to construct a Venn diagram with their observations. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th
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Students watch scenes from movie The Last Emperor, discuss differences between limited and unlimited government, identify types of government and sources of authority of various African and Asian countries, and discuss factors that shape countries and governments. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 11th - 12th
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Students collect magazine or newspaper advertisements. They are told that the advertisement material must be free of profanity or sexual content. Students work in small groups of no more than four students per group, they read the essay: I Want a Wife by Judy Syfers. They identify the purpose, argument, audience, and persona of the essay. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th
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Students brainstorm reason authors write. they list their responses on the board. Using the list, students read and discuss each purpose. They read examples from a linked site and identify the purpose of each. Students work independently to read a selection about "Tarantulas and Typhoid" by Stephanie Moss. They identify the authors purpose. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th
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Students identify the three main purposes of writing in context. They practice the three main purposes in their own writing. A scenario is given to them to write on and discuss with classmates. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 12th
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Students complete an in-depth study of the works or a specific author. Working in pairs, students read at least four works by the same author. After completing the reading, students create an essay comparing and contrasting the works and create an oral presentation documenting their analysis. Full Review »
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