Teaching Resource
Identify Author's Purpose Poster
A poster highlighting how to identify the author’s purpose when reading a piece of text.
Display this poster when learning about the different comprehension strategies and identifying the author’s purpose.
Information on the poster includes:
The purpose of a text is the reason why it was written. An author may write a text to persuade, to inform, to entertain, to explain something or to describe something.
Persuade
To convince the reader to agree with a certain viewpoint on an particular issue or topic.
Inform
To teach or provide information to the reader on a particular topic using facts.
Entertain
To engage and provide enjoyment for the reader through imaginative writing or storytelling.
Explain
To tell the reader how to do something or to show how something works.
Describe
To portray to the reader the characteristics of a person, place, thing or experience.
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NSW Curriculum alignment
Victorian Curriculum alignment
- VCELY347
Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts
- VCELY257
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features
- VCELY288
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts
- VCELY319
Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACELY1680
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language featuresElaborationsmaking connections between the text and students own experie...
- ACELY1692
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating textsElaborationsmaking connections between the text and studentsâ own experience and oth...
- ACELY1703
Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sourcesElaborationsusing research skills including identifying research purpose, locating texts, gathering and organising informati...
- ACELY1713
Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital textsElaborationsmaking connections between the text and studentsâ own experience or oth...
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