Lesson Plan : Author's Purpose and Motivation
Teacher Name: | Mrs. Navas |
Grade: | Grade 3 |
Subject: | Language Arts |
Topic: | Author's Purpose: recognizing why an author writes a piece of text. |
Content: | In this lesson students use short reading passages to identify, explain, and discuss the author's purpose for writing. |
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Objectives: | Florida Sunshine State Standards LA. A2.3.2.6.2 The student states the author's purpose and relates it to specific details from the text. Students will locate, comprehend, interpret, evaluate, maintain, and apply information, concepts, and ideas found in literature. |
Materials: | Chalk and chalkboard Teachers selects examples of reading passages from various types of media. (Examples: newspaper, textbook, journal, diary, essay, magazine, letter) copy of short reading passage, one per child. |
Introduction: | Review over what the type students have already learned about each of the different author's purposes and what types of text they may apply to. |
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Checking For Understanding: | Review over what the type students have already learned about each of the different author's purposes and what types of text they may apply to. |
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Evaluation: | 1. Students should have prior knowledge of author's purpose before beginning assignment. 2. Review with students the definition of author's purpose. Also, review the four purposes for writing (persuade, inform, entertain, share a personal experience). 3. Explain that authors don't usually state a purpose, so you need to pay close attention to the details that are given in the text in order to be able to determine the author's purpose for writing. 4. Tell students that an easy way to remember the four purposes for writing is to use the mnemonic device P.I.E.S. 5. Remind students that if they know the author's purpose for writing, they will become better readers. 6. Next, display several reading passages on the chalkboard that express each author's purpose (persuade, inform, entertain, share a personal experience). 7. Pass out to students a copy of the passages displayed on chalkboard. 8. Draw four columns on the board. Label each column with one of the four purposes for writing. 9. Have students silently read over the passages that were given to them. 10. After students have finished reading their passages silently, as a class, discuss which paragraphs fit into each column on the board. Have students further explain and discuss details from the different passages that explain the author's purpose for writing. 11. Have students brainstorm and give other examples of writing that fit under the correct column on the chalkboard. (examples: essay, phone book, map, recipe, encyclopedia). Make sure that students are able to explain and discuss their answers. 12. Say to the students that now it's time for them to work independently. 13. Pass out one reading passage and one graphic organizer to each child. 14. Tell the students that they are to read each passage and pay close attention to the specific details in the passages that they receive. After paying close attention to the specific details in the passages, they are to identify the author's purpose in the center of their graphic organizers and list four supporting details around the author's purpose that prove, explain, and discuss the author's purpose for writing the passage. 15. After each student is finished with his/her assignment, he is to share his graphic organizer with a peer. |
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