Author’s Purpose Print and Digital for 3rd Grade

This Author’s Purpose Unit comes in print and digital (for Google Classroom and other top educational platforms) and includes 6 passages, 32 character task cards, a game, a foldable, graphic organizers, posters, and writing activities to keep your third grade students fully engaged! This resource will provide your students with lots of practice identifying the author’s purpose using a variety of formats.

 

It includes:

6 Passages with comprehension questions (3 are open-ended and 3 are multiple choice)

 

Persuade:

Too Much TV

Plastic

 

Inform:

Desert Habitat

Pufferfish

 

Entertain:

The Mice and the Weasels (Aesop’s Fables)

Why Anansi Has Eight Thin Legs (African Folktale)

 

32 Task Cards

Record Sheet and Key

3 Graphic Organizers

5 Worksheets for Author’s Purpose

Outlining Pages for Persuade, Inform, and Entertain Paragraphs

Writing Pages for Persuade, Inform, and Entertain Paragraphs

4 Posters (in Color and BW)

A PIE Foldable

A Concentration Game

Answer Keys

Teacher Notes

Teacher Notes for Digital PDF with Links

 

 

Why you’ll love this resource:

• It has lots of different types of formats, from passages to task cards, a foldable, posters, graphic organizers, a concentration game, and more!

 

• The unit comes in both print and in NO PREP digital. The digital task cards and the multiple-choice passages are self-grading.

 

• Your students will love the high-interest passages!

 

• The passages have a mix of open-ended and multiple-choice questions.

 

• The posters make a great visual reference for your students.

 

• There are writing activities included to reinforce the author’s purpose concept.

 

• It may be used in a number of ways from guided reading, to reader’s workshop, independent work, literacy centers, exit slips, homework, whole class games, test prep, and more!!!

 

 

 

Need an Author’s Purpose for 4th/5th Grades? It is similar to this unit except for the passages.
Author’s Purpose for 4th/5th Grades

 

Looking for more 3rd grade resources?
Cause and Effect from Informational Text
Characters, Settings, and Events
Inferences Using Informational Text
Inferences Using Literature: 3rd – 5th Grade
Compare and Contrast and More: Stories, Myths, and Traditional Literature
Elements of Poetry, Drama, and Prose

 

Thanks so much!
Jenn

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