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Thursday, April 7, 2011
Authors Purpose
I am looking for some good read alouds and/or ideas for teacher's author's purpose. Comment below and tell us what you do in your classroom to teach author's purpose.
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I love Helen Lester books. She makes teaching this skill very easy to me. Some of her books include "Listen Buddy" and "Me First".
How about using the "PIE" idea to teach author's purpose? Author write to pursuade, inform, and entertain readers. :) I introduce Gail Gibbons for inform, Robert Munsch for entertain, and Scholastic readers for persuade. You could also use poetry for persuade!
:) Melissa
My students do this weekly during Independent Reading. I have them finish this simple sentence. I learned. . .
This helps them understand the Author's Purpose of writing the book.
Author's purpose of 'to persuade' ... Mo Willems' pigeon books... we talked about how the pigeon is persuasive and then the students became authors and were persuasive in letters.
We just read "The Dot" in my class and discussed the author's message. The author's purpose might be to entertain, but would the message make it to inform? My students loved debating. Really good story with a positive message.
I think Jerry Pallotta is a great author for read alouds and author's purpose. He has great nonfiction books that focus on giving information(alphabet) and he has a ton of math theme books too. His books appeal to a wide range of ages too. His web page is great!
What great ideas- I can't to see what everyone else says.
I created a mini mobile for my room with all the possibilities...to entertain, to inform, etc. and it's a concrete way to approach it with kinderkids.
Fran@kindergartencrayons.blogspot.com
Fran,
I would love to see a picture. Love that idea! Thanks for sharing everyone. Great ideas!!
Let me look for it on my hard drive. I have stuff everywhere. Sometimes I put the name of the book on a clothespin and hook it on the card we decided fits the story after we read it.
Fran
I wrote about author's purpose!!! I would love to see what other people do!
http://workshopclassroom.blogspot.com/2011/02/determining-authors-purpose-what-is.html
There are some awesome "author's purpose" signs on TeachersPayTeachers.com that are free!!
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Download/Authors-Purpose-Poster
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