Author’s Purpose Print and Digital for 4th and 5th Grades

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 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:

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Helping Bees

 

Inform:

Benjamin Franklin

Seahorses

 

Entertain:

The Old Woman Who Lived in a Vinegar Bottle (English Folktale)

How the Chipmunk Got its Stripes

 

32 Task Cards

Record Sheet and Key

3 Graphic Organizers

5 Graphic Organizers for Author’s Purpose

Outlining Pages for Persuade, Inform, and Entertain Paragraphs

Writing Pages for Persuade, Inform, and Entertain Paragraphs

4 Posters

A PIE Foldable

A Concentration Game

Answer Keys

Teacher Notes

Teacher Notes for Digital 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!!!