Identify the author's purpose (i.e., to inform, to entertain, to share feelings, to describe, to persuade). SPI 0501.8.9

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1. Author's Purpose - read A Winning Breakfast and answer questions on paper - a detailed explanation follows passage, teaching how to find the answers in passages
2. Author's Purpose - read Save the Wilbur and answer questions on paper - a detailed explanation follows passage, teaching how to find the answers in passages
3. Author's Purpose Interactive Practice Sites - a collection of resources at Internet4Classrooms
4. Author's Purpose Worksheets and PowerPoint Shows - a collection of resources at Internet4Classrooms
5. Expository Essays:
   1. Expository Writing - Eight different examples of expository organizational patterns
   2. The Expository Essay - Examples of expository essays
   3. Expository Writing Tips - 244 writing prompts
6. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Someone a Letter - historical letters help students do some real-world writing
7. Information and Activities for Modes of Writing - Links to various modes of writing.
8. Narrative Essays :
   1. Narrative Essay - Article and help on writing narrative essay.
   2. Step by step guide - Guide on writing an essay.
   3. Narrative Writing Prompts - 114 prompts
   4. Student Writing Tools Handbook - [25 pages] Transitions, rubrics, grammar, citations, and more [This expired document is from the Internet Archive known as the Wayback Machine.]
   5. Template for writing a narrative - Scaffolding guide for students
9. Persuasive writing
   1. Can you Convince me? - Lesson plan
   2. Truth in Advertising - read and identify various types of advertisements, analyze advertisements for examples of persuasive writing, generalizing, exaggeration, and scare tactics, and write responses to ads that you've analyzed
   3. Persuasive Writing Prompts used in past Writing Assessments in Tennessee - Grade 5 ; Grade 8 ; Grade 11
   4. Persuasive Writing Prompts from a home schooling site
   5. Scholastic's Writing Workshop - You already spend a lot of time trying to persuade your parents or teachers to allow you to watch more TV or do less homework. Now you can use those same skills to write a persuasive essay!
   6. Writing That Persuades - Persuasion means making someone with a different point of view from your own change their mind to your way of thinking.
   7. Writing to Persuade Rubric - Perhaps your students can understand writing to persuade better by seeing this rubric.
10. Write for a Real Purpose - Lesson plan

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