How Can You Make Finding Author’s Purpose Easy for Students

Published August 24, 2011 | By Ms. K

I recently attended a Maria Banks training, and she suggested ways to help students identify the author’s purpose for writing a passage.  Below is the list of clues that we developed to help students identify a passage.  I am sure there are more that we didn’t think of that can be added.  To help students identify these, create a chart in class with the students, and make an anchor chart of author’s purpose clues.

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2 comments on “How Can You Make Finding Author’s Purpose Easy for Students”

1. Cathy Lilly on January 23, 2013 at 10:04 am said:

   Thank you for sharing this! This will help our students to provide textual evidence when determining author’s purpose.

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   • Ms. K on January 24, 2013 at 8:19 pm said:

     You’re welcome!

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