Name:
_____________________ Date: _____________________
Author’s Purpose: Group
and Individual/Problem Solving and Thinking Tasks
Direction/Discussion:
Participate in a small group discussion about entertaining, information, and persuasive stories to analyze, compare,
contrast, draw conclusions/justify solutions, and identify relevant/irrelevant
information in order to put entertain, information, and persuasive stories in the
correct categories in lists and a 3-column chart. During the discussion, evaluate and explain the
author’s purpose for students –selected entertaining, informative, and
persuasive stories. Make a list of five entertaining, five information,
and five persuasive stories on a piece of chart paper.
Direction: Respond to
each higher order question in your groups.
- How
are all of the stories alike in the entertain list? Explain your response in complete
sentences.
- How
are all of the stories alike in the information list? Explain your response in complete
sentences.
- How
are all the stories alike in the persuade list? Explain your response in complete
sentences.
- How
are the stories in the entertain, information, and persuade lists
different? Explain your response in
complete sentences.
- How
will you use what you have learned about the author’s purpose to analyze
the books that you select from the library? Explain your response in complete
sentences.
Direction/Group Task: Each group will draw a 3– column chart
to analyze previously read stories in order to determine the author’s purpose
for three or more stories in the entertain, information, and persuade
categories on a piece of chart paper. Analyze
entertaining, informative, and persuasive stories and write the stories titles
in the entertain, information, and persuade categories in a 3-column
chart. Select three or more stories to
write on the 3 –column chart in the entertain category from the entertain
stories list. Select three or more
stories to write on the 3 – column chart in the information category from the
information stories list. Select three
or more stories to write on the 3 – column chart in the persuade category from
the persuade stories list. Write a
sentence that explains how all the entertain stories are alike. Write a sentence that explains how all the
information stories are alike. Write a
sentence that explains how all the persuasive stories are alike.
Direction/Individual Task:
Each student will select one story from the 3 – column chart to demonstrate the reason the
author wrote one story. Write the title of the story at the top of an index
card. Draw and label one picture on the index
card that demonstrates the author’s purpose for the story. Write a sentence that explains the reason
the author wrote the story at the bottom of the index card.
