ELAR 2.10
Author's purpose and craft: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses critical inquiry to analyze the authors' choices and how they influence and communicate meaning within a variety of texts. The student analyzes and applies author's craft purposefully in order to develop his or her own products and performances. The student is expected to:
- (1) discuss the author's purpose for writing text;
- (A) discuss how the use of text structure contributes to the author's purpose;
- (B) discuss the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes;
- (C) discuss the use of descriptive, literal, and figurative language;
- (D) identify the use of first or third person in a text; and
- (E) identify and explain the use of repetition.
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Human Histories: World Explorers – Comprehension Worksheet
A free comprehension worksheet paired with an informational text about world explorers.
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Reading Comprehension Strategies Anchor Charts
Provide young readers with concrete examples of reading strategies with a set of 18 ready-made reading anchor charts.
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Author's Purpose Sorting Activity
In this author's purpose activity, students will sort 20 phrase cards into groups by identifying whether the text is meant to inform, persuade, or entertain.
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Free Author's Purpose Worksheets
Assess reading comprehension by reviewing 3 short passages and answering questions about the author's purpose.
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Super Six Reading Comprehension Strategies Poster Pack
A pack of 7 posters which explain the Super Six reading comprehension strategies.
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Author's Purpose Graphic Organizer
Organize ideas and context clues that support the author's purpose from your assigned texts.
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Grade 2 Magazine - What's Buzzing? (Issue 1)
A beautifully designed, 24-page reading magazine specifically written for Grade 2 students.
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Grade 2 Magazine - "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 1) Task Cards
Five sets of literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with issue 1 of Teach Starter's Grade 2 magazine.
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Author's Purpose - Response Template
A teaching resource to help teach your students about the author's purpose for a piece of text.
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Identify Author's Purpose Poster
A poster highlighting how to identify the author's purpose when reading a piece of text.
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Spring Is Here Poem – Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet paired with a poem about the season of spring.
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Sensory Chart Graphic Organizer
A graphic organizer for students to use when categorizing sensory details.
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What Could It Be? - Sensory Poem Template
Use this template when teaching students how to write sensory poems.
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Author's Purpose SORT IT!
Analyze 24 text examples and determine which of the 5 purposes of writing each of the sorting cards belongs to.
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Author's Purpose - Puzzle Activity
A teaching resource to help teach your students about author’s purpose.
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Author's Purpose - Sentence Writing Activity
A teaching resource to help teach your students about author's purpose.
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Author's Purpose - Sorting Worksheet
A teaching resource to help teach your students about author's purpose.
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Reading Strategies Poster Pack
A pack of 10 posters explaining some of the most commonly used reading comprehension strategies.
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Three Levels of Reading Posters
Beyond the lines, between the lines and on the lines posters for the three levels of reading.
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First, Second, and Third Person Narration Posters
A set of three posters and a title page examining first, second, and third person narration.
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Animal Alliteration Activity - Brainstorming Template
Use this brainstorming template when teaching about alliteration.
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Concrete Poem Poster
A poster providing a definition and example of a concrete poem (or shape poem).
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Primary Weekly Poetry Guide - Week 1
Use this weekly poetry guide to celebrate National Poetry Month in your primary classroom.
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Alliteration Poster For Young Students
A poster to use with young students when teaching alliteration.
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Alliteration Poem Poster
A poster providing a definition and example of an alliteration poem.
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Primary Weekly Poetry Guide - Week 2
Use this weekly poetry guide to celebrate National Poetry Month in your primary classroom.
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Rhyming Poems Poster
A poster providing a definition and example of a rhyming poem.
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Onomatopoeia Poems Poster
A poster providing a definition and example of an onomatopoeia poem.
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Primary Weekly Poetry Guide - Week 3
Use this weekly poetry guide to celebrate National Poetry Month in your primary classroom.
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Primary Weekly Poetry Guide - Weeks 4 and 5
Use this weekly poetry guide to celebrate National Poetry Month in your primary classroom.
