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What is the Author’s Purpose?. Ms. Lee’s Second Grade Class Standard: ELACC2R16: Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author want to answer, explain or describe. Essential Questions:. Why did the author write this book?
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What is the Author’s Purpose? Ms. Lee’s Second Grade Class Standard: ELACC2R16: Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author want to answer, explain or describe.
Essential Questions: • Why did the author write this book? • What clues in the text help us to determine why the author wrote this book?
Lesson Objective • Given 10 exerts from 10 children’s books, students will correctly identify the author’s intended purpose on a multiple choice assessment consisting of 10 multiple choice questions, 90% of the time.
Connections Think about a book that you recently read. • Tell me a little bit about the book. • Did the book make you feel a certain way? • Did you like or dislike that book? • Do you know why the author wrote that book?
Four Corners: Pre-Assessment • After you hear the passage and decide why the author wrote the passage. Then find the sign that also shows that reason. The signs are inform, describe, or answer. • I will read through 10 passages and you will move to the different signs after all ten passages. • If you are not sure why the author wrote the passage, move to the sign that you think is closest to why the author wrote it. • It is ok not to know, we will learn how to determine the author's purpose in our lesson today!
Opening • I will read the book, The monster who ate my peas to the class by Danny Schitzlein • As a class we will discuss: • Who are the characters? • What is the problem that the little boy is facing? • Who shows up to help the little boy with his peas? Humm? Now we know some about the book, but we still don’t really know why the author wrote the book. Let’s reread the book, looking at the problems that the characters face. Maybe this can help us decide why the author wrote the book.
The little boy’s Mom First, let’s look how the little boy’s mom tries to convince him to eat the peas. • Can any one tell me: 1. How does the little boy’s mom try to get him to eat the peas? 2. Does it work? Humm, well knowing why the little boy’s mom is upset, helps us to know one of the big problems in the book; but we still do not know why the author wrote the whole book. Let’s keep reading and maybe we will find some more clues.
The Monster! (He scares me) Second, let’s look at the monster. Can anyone tell me: 3 . How does the monster convince the little boy to let him help? 4. What does the little boy have to give up for the monsters help? 5. Is the little boy happy that the monster helped? Humm, well now I see how the little boy is trying to solve his problem, but it does not seem to be working and worse, the monster is taking his stuff as payment. However, this does give us another clue. The little boy’s problem is that he does not think he likes peas.
Mom’s Reaction to his peas disappearing Third, let’s look at how the little boy’s mom reacts to him “eating” his peas. Can anyone tell me: *how does mom react when she sees the little boy has ate all his peas? Humm, well the peas being gone made the little boy’s mom happy. The little boy wants to make his mom happy, but he still will not eat the peas. Now we have some more clues. The little boy wants to make his mom happy, but eating peas is something he WILL NOT do!
The little boyTries the Peas!!! • Now let’s discuss the little boy trying the peas. Can anyone tell me: • how does the little boy convince himself to eat the peas? • What does he discover? WOW! Ralph discovered that peas are not bad! In fact, he likes peas! That is our final clue! The little boy learned that by trying something new (eating the peas), he found a food that he likes!
What do you think? • Why do you think the author would write this book? • Was it to entertain us? • Was it to show us something?
Conclusions • I think the author wrote this book to show us to try new things. The little boy did not like peas, so he never tried them, but when he did finally try them…. He saw he liked them. I think the author's purpose is to teach us a important lesson, to try new things! • Let’s look at the last page: • We see that the little boy now wants to try any food! • Is there any new thing that you are scared to try?
Works Cited • https://www.georgiastandards.org/Frameworks/GSO%20Frameworks/2%20Persuasive%20Task%20Authors%20Purpose.pdf
