Why do authors write? Practice determining the author's purpose with a categorizing activity. Learners sort twelve short passages into three categories: persuade, inform, and entertain.

Concepts

author's purpose, persuasion, informative writing, Persuasive Writing, reading, reading comprehension, responding to reading

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Laminate the cards so you can use them over and over again
• Since the resource is a bit vague on who does what, kids could work with a partner, in small groups, or as a whole class to complete the sorting

Classroom Considerations

• The final step is peer evaluation, but the resource does not go into detail about how to conduct the peer evaluation

Pros

• All materials are included in a format that is easy to print, copy, and cut out
• Provides an answer key

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.2.10 RI.2.6 RF.2.4.a RL.3.10 RI.3.6 RF.3.4.a