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Objectives

• To understand that authors have a purpose to their writing.
• To distinguish between writing that informs, entertains, or persuades.
• To identify the purpose of both short passages and whole selections.

Websites

www.sirinet.net/~project/TaratulasAndTyphoidLP.html

Description

This lesson introduces the three purposes for which authors write and gives students practice in identifying the purposes of several selections.

Website(s)

Scavenger Hunt for Author's Purpose

Materials and Resources

Author's Purpose SMART notebook
Author's purpose pdf

Procedure

• Brainstorm the reasons that author's write. List responses on board or first slide of SMART Notebook lesson attached.
• Using the slides, read about each purpose.
• Discuss the types of written material that match each purpose.
• Have students read the examples and identify the purpose of each.
• For guided practice use: http://www.rcs.k12.tn.us/rcs_web/Title_I/author's_purpose_scavenger_hunt.htm
• Evaluate students understanding by having them complete a quiz containing excerpts to identify.

Duration

This lesson should take two 45-minute periods.

Assessment

Quiz students by giving them excerpts of stories to identify the author's purpose, or use unx1.shsu.edu/%7Etxcae/Powerpoints/prepostest/authorpovpostest.html .

SMART Board

• Author's Purpose
• Author's Purpose for SMART Notebook

Related Academic Standards

New York State

RL.6.7 Compare and contrast the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text, including contrasting what they "see" and "hear" when reading the text to what they perceive when they listen or watch.

RL.6.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

RL.6.11 Recognize, interpret, and make connections in narratives, poetry, and drama, ethically and artistically to other texts, ideas, cultural perspectives, eras, personal events, and situations.

RL.6.11.b Use established criteria to classify, select, and evaluate texts to make informed judgments about the quality of the pieces.

RI.6.1 Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

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