Learn Zillion: Use Text Structure to Understand Author's Purpose

The multi-lesson, 47-page packet contains everything you need to ensure kids can recognize the clues provided to identify the type of text, the intended audience, and the author's purpose in writing the passage.

How does an author entertain his or her audience? Read a short fairy tale and find the most evocative passages to discover more about author's purpose in narrative writing.

What is the author's purpose in writing a joke book? What about a book about the digestive system? Explore author's purpose with a activity that challenges kids to identify whether ten books are meant to entertain, inform, or persuade.

In this lesson, you will learn how to organize information by using text structure clues. [3:13]

In this lesson, you will understand the elements of a biography by looking specifically at the text features within the article. [4:11]

It is true that the more you practice something, the better you'll get at doing it. Lesson three in a three part series on author's purpose has kids venture out to determine the author's purpose in three different passages. They'll read...

Find the author's purpose in this review worksheet. Fourth graders read each of the three following paragraphs and decide whether the author's purpose is to persuade, inform, or entertain. You could use this activity as a class...

Readers identify the author's purpose. First, they read a passage and utilize details from the piece to determine the author's purpose. Then they will explain how they arrived at their conclusion. Links to materials are provided.

Investigate a "table of contents" with your learners! They read the table of contents in Deserts by Darlene R. Stille and predict where the answers to specific questions might be found. Learners complete a worksheet in which they find...