Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Texts With Similar/different Author's Purpose

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on being able to identify the author's purpose in a specific text. Specifically, it's about looking at several authors' works on the same topic and...
Study Guide
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Author's Purpose

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Site provides extensive assistance in preparing 4th grade students for Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. This section focuses on identifying the author's purpose.
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Fourth Grade: Three Lesson Unit: Author's Purpose

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on author's purpose where students learn to identify author's purpose, categorize texts according to author's purpose, and change author's purpose by rewriting a text. With free...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Author's Purpose Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Identifying author's purpose scavenger hunts are included on this tutorial site. Students will scan their textbooks and find different purposes that are addressed in different sections of them.
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Author's Purpose: Reading Test 2

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
A ten-question quiz on identifying whether an author's purpose is to persuade, inform, or entertain the reader. Students are asked to type an explanation for each answer. Results can be printed, saved, or emailed.
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Author's Purpose: Reading Test 3

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
A ten-question quiz on identifying whether an author's purpose is to persuade, inform, or entertain the reader. Students are asked to type an explanation for each answer. Results can be printed, saved, or emailed.
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Author's Purpose 3rd Grade

For Students 3rd Standards
Learn about author's purpose with these links to flashcards, a learning activity, a spelling activity, a test, a matching game, and a gravity game.
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South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Author's Purpose Pie

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third graders will determine the authors purpose in creating a story.
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That Quiz

That Quiz: Author's Purpose

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
In this 10 question, self-grading quiz, students read a topic and label the author's purpose as to inform, entertain, or persuade. The quiz is timed, but not limited.
Activity
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Author's Purpose and Tone

For Students 9th Standards
React to chapter thirty from A Lesson Before Dying to explore the author's purpose and tone.
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Author's Purpose 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-activity unit on author's purpose. In the first activity, students practice identifying the author's purpose as to entertain, to persuade, or to inform. In the second activity, students use...
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Author's Purpose

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach learners to identify author's purpose including to entertain, to inform, and to persuade. Lessons are based on the books The Adventures of Taxi Dog by...
Study Guide
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Author's Purpose

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Some author's purpose teaching ideas from a standardized test preparation site (Fourth Grade Reading Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test). Aligned to Florida standards, four ideas are provided including "Author's Grab Bag," "Author's...
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Other

Prezi: Author's Purpose

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Slideshow provides an explanation of the author's purpose which is to reflect, inform, persuade, or entertain (RIPE).
Interactive
E Reading Worksheets

Ereading Worksheet: Author's Purpose

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
A ten-question interactive reading exercise over the author's purpose. An embed code is available for class websites.
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Authors Purpose

For Students K - 1st Standards
A five-part learning module with links to videos and an image on author's purpose.
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Author's Purpose Test

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
An multiple-choice quiz on identifying an author's purpose.
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Author's Purpose

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A nine-part learning module with links to images and videos about author's purpose.
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Text Structure & Author's Purpose

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
A ten-part learning module with links to videos, images, and websites to use while learning about text structure and author's purpose.
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Author's Purpose

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
An eleven-part learning module with links to images and videos to use while learning to identify an author's purpose.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Texts With Similar/different Purposes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson is about being able to identify the author's purpose in a specific text. Specifically, it's about looking at several authors' works on the same topic and...
Website
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Author's Purpose

For Students 2nd Standards
Read the definition of author's purpose and click on links to strategy information and student activities.
Study Guide
University of South Florida

University of South Florida: Fcat Express: Author's Purpose Activity

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Practice identifying author's purpose by recognizing the purpose in titles, understanding the difference between fact and opinion, and identifying the purpose of various forms of writing.
Unit Plan
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Author's Purpose

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Learn about author's purpose and then answer some self-assessment questions after the lesson. Continue clicking the next button to get to more information.

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