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Second graders consider the author's purpose for writing a text. For this author's purpose lesson, 2nd graders discuss reasons why author's write a book and how it can often be for entertainment. Students read a book, provide two examples from the book, and write evidence how the text was to entertain.

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author's purpose, authors, reading comprehension, entertainment

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author's purpose, characteristics, comprehension, entertainment, english language arts
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Grade
2nd
Subjects
English Language Arts
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For Teacher Use
Duration
45 mins
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Research
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Text-to-Speech
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Common Core

SL.2.2

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