Author’s Purpose Reading Comprehension Unit – Task Cards and Anchor Chart
$3.50
Author’s purpose is essential to reading comprehension. This product is designed to support students in identifying author’s purpose in different texts. Teacher pages explain how to use the gradual release model to help students move from learning the new strategy to supported practice to independent practice.
PDF | 12 pages
Description
Make author’s purpose part of every reading conversation. This resource includes task cards, an anchor chart, a sort, a graphic organizer, and practice pages.
Author’s purpose is essential to reading comprehension. With this resource, students will use author’s purpose to complete task cards, build an anchor chart, complete an author’s purpose sort, write a reading response and more!
Included in this product…
- Teacher Tips Page: the gradual release model
- Printable anchor charts (2)
- Mentor text list: four different categories
- How to use mentor texts sheet
- Concrete introduction activity directions: Just One Sentence!
- Anchor chart example
- Cards for sorting during the Just One Sentence Activity
- Guided Practice: a reading comprehension passage to use during read aloud or shared reading to introduce the skill with a think-aloud. Includes guiding questions for using the strategy.
- Author’s Purpose Task Cards: 3 cards at each level, 3 different levels
- Author’s purpose graphic organizer
- Scaffolded independent reading response sheet
- Strategy Bookmarks
Happy Teaching!
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