Today, we practiced finding the author’s purpose of a text. We practiced on lots of different texts, which I’m working on putting together is a small packet, but I wanted to go ahead and share a quick resource I created that really helped today. While my fifth graders are well aware of PIE and the different purposes, they need a little help being able to identify the key elements of certain texts that make the purpose to entertain or inform or persuade. I made these cards that have some helpful info that make it easy to refer to.
I also used them to check for understanding. It was super easy to see who got it right by the color of the card.
Click here to grab your copy of these reference cards.
