Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Formal Letter for Author Study
This Daily Teaching Tools lesson explains how to write a business letter to an author. It also provides a rubric.
Fun Trivia
Fun Trivia: The Four Types of Writing Trivia Quiz
A fifteen-question quiz in which the reader identifies a type of writing for each situation: argumentation, exposition, narrative, or description. Correct answers are displayed once answers are submitted.
TES Global
Blendspace: Author's Purpose
A nine-part learning module with links to images and videos about author's purpose.
TES Global
Blendspace: Text Structure & Author's Purpose
A ten-part learning module with links to videos, images, and websites to use while learning about text structure and author's purpose.
TES Global
Blendspace: Author's Purpose
An eleven-part learning module with links to images and videos to use while learning to identify an author's purpose.
TES Global
Blendspace: Authors Purpose
A five-part learning module with links to videos and an image on author's purpose.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Author's Purpose Test
An multiple-choice quiz on identifying an author's purpose.
Tom Richey
Slide Share Author's Purpose
A slide show with five slides with examples of three different types of author's purpose: to entertain, to inform, and to persuade.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Author's Purpose 8th Grade
A slideshow with twenty slides with information and examples of four different purposes an author can have for writing a text: to entertain, to persuade, to express, or to inform/explain.
Other
Prezi: Author's Purpose
Slideshow provides an explanation of the author's purpose which is to reflect, inform, persuade, or entertain (RIPE).
Other
Reference: What Is Author Purpose?
An informative answer with links to more learning for the question, "What is author purpose?"
Room Recess
Room Recess: Author's Purpose
Read short texts and determine whether their purpose is to inform, entertain, or persuade in order to move around the board in this online learning game. Click on video lessons for an understanding of author's purposes including types of...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Helen Keller: The Story of My Life
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart uses Helen Keller: The Story of My Life from the 2003 edition of The Language of Literature. Students will discuss the story as well as learn concepts such as point of view, conflict,...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Rhetorical Devices and Historically Significant Speeches
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart gives students the opportunity to analyze Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech and identify the rhetorical devices that make them...
University of South Florida
Fcat Express: Author's Purpose
Read the definition of author's purpose and click on links to strategy information and student activities.
University of South Florida
Fcat Express: Author's Purpose: Student Activity
An online learning activity where students read four titles and choose what the author's purpose for each text would be: to inform, to entertain, or to persuade.
Sam Houston State University
Sam Houston State University: Author's Purpose and Point of View: Posttest
A ten-question multiple choice test over author's purpose and character point of view.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Identify Author's Purpose
Learn about author's purpose and how to identify it with a list of guiding questions.
Quizlet
Quizlet: 3rd Grade: Author's Purpose: Test
This interactive assessment features 6 multiple-choice over author's purpose terms and examples: The terms are to persuade, inform, and entertain.
Quizlet
Quizlet: 3rd Grade: Author's Purpose: Match
In this interactive game, students match terms relating to author's purpose to examples of each; the purposes are to persuade, inform, and entertain.
Quizlet
Quizlet: 3rd Grade: Author's Purpose: Flashcards
This set of interactive flashcards focuses on the terms relating to author's purpose and examples of each; the purposes are to persuade, inform, and entertain.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Claim and Support Vocabulary: Flashcards
This set of interactive flashcards focuses on 20 vocabulary words relating to argumentative writing claims and support. It provides the definitions and an example sentence for each word.
Big Learners
Biglearners.com: ccss.ela literacy.ri.1.8 : First Grade English Language Arts
Here is a collection of our common core aligned worksheets for core standard RI.1.8. A brief description of the worksheets is on each of the worksheet widgets. Click on the images to view, download, or print them. All worksheets are free...