Identify the purpose for writing (i.e., to entertain, to inform, to report). SPI 0501.3.2

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1. Author's Purpose - [designed for grade 4] lesson and practice
2. Author's Purpose Quizzes - Pre-test | Post-test answers are available from a link at the bottom of each test [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
3. 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
4. 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
5. Author's Purpose Interactive Practice Sites - a collection of resources at Internet4Classrooms
6. Author's Purpose Worksheets and PowerPoint Shows - a collection of resources at Internet4Classrooms
7. Evaluate Author's Purpose - read story and print answer sheet for completion
8. Expository Essays:
   1. Expository Writing - Eight different examples of expository organizational patterns
   2. Expository Writing Prompts - 11 writing prompts [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
   3. A Lesson in Expository Writing -The Personal Touch: - This lesson uses examples of such communication as a springboard for practice in expository writing. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
   4. The Expository Essay - Examples of expository essays
   5. Expository Writing Tips! - The information was taken from "Blowing Away the State Writing Assessment Test" by Jane Bell Kiester available through Maupin House Publishing. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
   6. Expository Writing Plan - Use this information to help create your essays. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
   7. Writing a "How-to" Explanation - Student model as an example
   8. Writing Informative Text - [Skillwise factsheet] How to write texts for a particular audience with a clear aim
9. Game - Author's Purpose - matching game
10. Identifying Different Types of Text - [Skillwise worksheet] Exercise in identifying different types of text.
11. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Someone a Letter - historical letters help students do some real-world writing
12. Information and Activities for Modes of Writing - Links to various modes of writing.
13. Narrative Essays :
    1. Multiple Paragraph Essay - Pointers on writing an essay [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
    2. Narrative Essay - Article and help on writing narrative essay.
    3. Step by step guide - Guide on writing an essay.
    4. Student Writing Tools Handbook - [25 pages] Transitions, rubrics, grammar, citations, and more [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
    5. Template for writing a narrative - Scaffolding guide for students
14. Persuasive writing
    1. Can you Convince me? - Lesson plan
    2. Persuasive Writing Prompts used in past Writing Assessments in Tennessee - Grade 5 ; Grade 8 ; Grade 11 [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
    3. Persuasive Writing Prompts from a home schooling site
    4. 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!
    5. Truth in Advertising - In this lesson you will: 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
    6. Writing a Persuasive Essay - Student model as an example
    7. Writing to Persuade - Persuasion means making someone with a different point of view from your own change their mind to your way of thinking.
    8. Writing to Persuade Rubric - Perhaps your students can understand writing to persuade better by seeing this rubric. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
15. Recognizing Different Types of Text - [Skillwise factsheet] How to recognize different types of text.
16. Text Types Game - [Skillwise game] Can you spot the text types?
17. Types of text - [Skillwise quiz] Entry 3 quiz
18. Types of text - [Skillwise quiz] Level 1 quiz
19. Types of Text Game - [Skillwise game] Can you spot the text types?
20. Understanding Different Types of Text - [Skillwise factsheet] How to understand different types of text.
21. Worksheets for Author's Intent - Four activities you might want to do as a class to practice Author's Purpose.
22. Write for a Real Purpose - Lesson plan

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