What's the Author's Purpose? Animal Shelter

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Title:

 What's the Author's Purpose? Animal Shelter

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 https://aptv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/vtl07-la-rv-text-lppurpose/whats-the-authors-purpose-animal-shelter/

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Type: Lesson/Unit Plan

Overview:

Students will learn how to determine an author's purpose. The author may be trying to inform, entertain, persuade, or describe. Students will be better able to draw conclusions and make inferences from this lesson.

Overview
Using a 2-column chart, students scaffold their thinking and draw conclusions about the author's purpose.

Why is this an important concept?
When students can identify whether an author's purpose for writing a text is to inform, persuade, entertain, or describe, they are better equipped to evaluate its content as they make inferences and draw conclusions.

Content Standard(s):
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 3
20. Establish a purpose before reading literary and informational texts to enhance comprehension, including identifying background knowledge and generating questions about the topic or characters.

Examples: reading for pleasure, application, or information; to identify a theme or an author's purpose
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 5
6. Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, automaticity, appropriate prosody or expression, purpose, and understanding, self-correcting and rereading as necessary.
Tags: Authors Purpose, Entertain, Inform, Multimedia Sources, Persuade
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Author: Jessica Byrd