Author’s Purpose Task Cards
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Persuade, Inform, or Entertain? These reading comprehension task cards and worksheets help students learn how to evaluate text to determine the author’s purpose for writing.
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Author’s Purpose Task Cards
What’s the author’s purpose? Persuade, Inform, or Entertain? This resource helps students learn how to evaluate text to determine the author’s purpose for writing.
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24 task cards
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Recording sheet
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Worksheet/Assessment
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Answer keys
🖨️ No color printer? No problem! These materials are provided in both color, as pictured, and black and white.
AUTHOR’S PURPOSE TASK CARDS:
On each card, students read a short paragraph and determine the author’s purpose for writing. What makes these unique is that there are three cards on the same topic but the author’s purpose is different.
For example, one card has an entertaining story about a train; another card gives information about trains; while a third card persuades readers to use trains as a form of travel. This allows students to compare the three forms of writing and really focus on the writer’s intent and how the author’s purpose differs.
❤️ “These were great! I loved how it had 3 different purposes for one topic. It really had my students thinking. Also, I liked how the passages were short. This let my students have a lot of practice and stay focused in their reading.” – Amanda
WORKSHEET/ASSESSMENT
The second activity in this resource is a cut-and-glue worksheet. It includes six short paragraphs. Students read each paragraph and glue the correct author’s purpose in the box.
This can be used as center work, homework, or assessment.
STANDARDS SUPPORTED BY THIS RESOURCE
CCSSRI.2.6 – Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.
Additional information
| Grade Level | 2nd |
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| Pages | 20 |
| Resource Type | Task Cards |
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Radha D. –
These task cards are just appropriate for my Intermediate and Intermediate-advance students. They are enough amount of reading and then practice the targeted skill. After guided practice of a few examples, they can move on to independent practice with inferencing and finding evidence.
Breanna S. –
This has been one of the hardest standards for my student to master. They always want to mark EVERYTHING as “to inform.” These small paragraphs were able to help them slow down and focus on what they were reading. I pulled them in small groups and guided them in how to determine the purpose. When we took our district assessments, they knocked this standard out of the park. These cards were awesome, and I have already put them away for next year.
Christine R. –
Great resource! Can’t wait to use this with my students!
Melissa K. –
My tutoring small group loved this resource. I used it to help teach students who want to be writers to first think about why they are writing before they start writing and identify the parts of the writing that were clues to the author’s purpose. This was a creative, fun activity to keep them engaged and moving. We used it like “four corners.”