English Language Arts and Reading.1.10.A

The student is expected to

discuss the author's purpose for writing text;

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Knowledge and Skills Statement

Author's purpose and craft: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses critical inquiry to analyze the authors' choices and how they influence and communicate meaning within a variety of texts. The student analyzes and applies author's craft purposefully in order to develop his or her own products and performances.

Ask students questions while they are reading a persuasive text in a whole-group or small-group context.

Examples:

  • Why do you think the author wrote this book?
  • Do you think the author wrote this book to entertain us, persuade us, or inform us?
Author's purpose is the author’s primary goal in a piece of writing, such as to narrate, argue, review, explain, examine, entertain, persuade, etc.