If your students are focusing on identifying the author’s purpose of a text, these reading passages and comprehension questions can help! This set of reading passages will help your students get plenty of practice identifying the author’s purpose.
Author’s Purpose Reading Passages and Worksheets
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If your students are focusing on identifying the author’s purpose of a text, these reading passages and comprehension questions can help! This set of reading passages will help your students get plenty of practice identifying the author’s purpose.
What’s Included?
12 Reading Passages each with a graphic organizer and comprehension questions. Each passage is short, yet engaging, and students will follow the same four-step process when reading each text.
- Step 1: Read the Passage
- Step 2: Think About the Passage
- Step 3: Organize Your Thinking
- Step 4: Respond to the Text
The goal with these texts is to give students an authentic reading experience where they have the time and space to critically think about the text and apply key reading skills.
How could I use this resource?
- Small Group Instruction
- Independent Practice
- Morning Work
- Spiral Review
- Test Prep
- Homework
- Assessments
- Partner Practice
Table of Contents/Specific Text Focus
- Text #1 – Pizza-palooza: A Restaurant Review (Authors write to describe)
- Text #2 – You can Bank on It! (Authors write to inform)
- Text #3 – Visit Park Bliss This Summer (Authors write to persuade)
- Text #4 – Ask a Zoologist (Authors write to answer questions)
- Text #5 – Social Media Helps Kids Connect (An author’s point of view influences their writing)
- Text #6 – Social Media Can Wait (An author’s point of view influences their writing)
- Text #7 – The Best Pet (Readers can have a different opinion than the author)
- Text #8 – Dragons: Flames and Fortune (Author’s Purpose and Text Structure)
- Text #9 – The Storm – Viewpoint #1 (Author’s personal experience influences their writing)
- Text #10 – The Storm – Viewpoint #2 (Author’s personal experience influences their writing)
**The resource is also included in The Stellar Literacy Collective.**
*Please note, there is no answer key included. Digital option is included.
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