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:
Use these colorful, fun task cards to help your beginning reader identify first, and third-person point of view (POV)
Solidify your nonfiction reading response lessons with this set of 12 comprehension task cards.
Assess reading comprehension by reviewing 3 short passages and answering questions about the author's purpose.
Organize ideas and context clues that support the author's purpose from your assigned texts.
Analyze 24 text examples and determine which of the 5 purposes of writing each of the sorting cards belongs to.
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.
A comprehension worksheet paired with a poem about the season of spring.
A comprehension worksheet paired with an informational text about world explorers.
A comprehension worksheet paired with an article about ways to keep our native animals and plants safe.
A teaching resource to help teach your students about author's purpose.
A beautifully designed, 24-page reading magazine specifically written for Grade 2 students.
Five sets of literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with issue 1 of Teach Starter's Grade 2 magazine.
Use this weekly poetry guide to celebrate National Poetry Month in your primary classroom.
A poster to use with young students when teaching similes.
Use this weekly poetry guide to celebrate National Poetry Month in your primary classroom.
A poster providing a definition and example of an onomatopoeia poem.
A poster providing a definition and example of a rhyming poem.
Use this weekly poetry guide to celebrate National Poetry Month in your primary classroom.
A poster providing a definition and example of an alliteration poem.
A poster to use with young students when teaching alliteration.
A template for students to use when learning how to write sensory poems.
A template for students to use when learning how to write a simile poem.
Use this weekly poetry guide to celebrate National Poetry Month in your primary classroom.
A poster providing a definition and example of a concrete poem (or shape poem).
A brainstorming template to use in the classroom when learning about alliteration.
A graphic organizer for students to use when categorizing sensory details.
A poster highlighting how to identify the author's purpose when reading a piece of text.
A poster highlighting the three main reasons an author writes a piece of text - to persuade, to inform, to entertain.
A set of three posters and a title page examining first, second, and third person narration.