Author's Purpose (Entertain)

Learning Objective: Identify the author's main purpose (entertain) and the secondary purpose (inform, persuade), based on evidence in a text.

Lesson Plan

Passages

Model Passage

The Dress in the Dream

fiction
  • Passage
Practice Passage

The Spider and the Watermelon

fiction
  • Passage
Independent Practice Passage 1

Meet Slue-Foot Sue

fiction
  • Passage
Independent Practice Passage 2

The Dinosaur Find--or Not

fiction
  • Passage

Extend the Lesson: Books and Lessons to Target Author's Purpose (Entertain)