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-
Practice Passage
The Spider and the Watermelon
fiction-
Independent Practice Passage 1
Meet Slue-Foot Sue
fiction-
Independent Practice Passage 2
The Dinosaur Find--or Not
fiction-
Extend the Lesson:
Books and Lessons to Target
Author's Purpose (Entertain)