Author's Purpose (Inform)
Learning Objective: Identify the author's main purpose (inform) and the secondary purpose (entertain or persuade), based on evidence in a text.
Lesson Plan
Passages
Model Passage
Beautiful Alaska
nonfiction-
Practice Passage
Real Cowboys of the Old West
nonfiction-
Independent Practice Passage 1
An American Frontier
nonfiction-
Independent Practice Passage 2
Animals We Didn't Know Existed
nonfiction-
Extend the Lesson:
Books and Lessons to Target
Author's Purpose (Inform)