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explain the author's purpose and message within a text;
Organize ideas and context clues that support the author's purpose from your assigned texts.
A poster highlighting the three main reasons an author writes a piece of text - to persuade, to inform, to entertain.
Build comprehension skills and learn about human impact on ecosystems with a reading passage and worksheets.
An article about historic women paired with a comprehension task.
An engaging 44 slide interactive PowerPoint to use in the classroom when introducing comprehension strategies.
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 sorting activity to help students identify the author’s purpose for a piece of text.
A teaching resource to help teach your students about author's purpose.
A fun reading comprehension strategy activity for students to use after reading a text.
Analyze 24 text examples and determine which of the 5 purposes of writing each of the sorting cards belongs to.
A worksheet to help teach students the author's craft of using modality words to persuade the reader.
A fun comprehension strategy board game for students to play during literacy rotations.
A teaching resource to help teach your students about author's purpose.
A sequencing task using an opinion text.
Teach your students to identify the author’s purpose in a text with a teaching presentation.
Review and practice multiple reading skills using the text “King Midas and the Golden Touch” with these digital and print resources.
A free comprehension worksheet paired with an informational text about world explorers.
Sort low and high modality words with this cut and paste worksheet.
A worksheet to help teach students the author’s craft of using personal pronouns in persuasive text.
A worksheet to consolidate students' understanding of rhetorical questions.
A worksheet to help teach students the author's craft of emotive language.
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with issue 1 of Teach Starter's Grade 3 magazine.
A poster highlighting how to identify the author's purpose when reading a piece of text.
A teaching resource to help teach your students about author’s purpose.
A teaching resource to help teach your students about the author's purpose for a piece of text.
A collection of age-appropriate, Grade 3 teaching resources and activities for homeschool parents to use with their children during the month of September.
An extensive resource pack to help students understand the concept of author’s purpose.