![]() This means students need to use their inferential thinking skills to be able to figure it out. Usually, the text doesn’t directly state: The author’s purpose of this text is to inform the reader… So in order for students to identify the author’s purpose of a text, they are going to have to make an inference. Idea #4 – Finding Text Evidence to Support Author’s Prupose Anytime I teach about nonfiction text strucutre, I also like to include a visual symbol to help remind students about that text structure so a visual cue is always a good option as well.You could create a chart for just nonfiction or one that includes both nonfiction and fiction text structures.Include a chart or table that shows the type of text structure and how it connects to a specific author’s purpose.Possible Title: Purpose & Structure or The Author’s Purpose and Text Structure Connection.There is a lot of benefit to teaching the connection between author’s purpose and text structure. If students can recognize one, they should be able to recognize the other. If an author wants to entertain their readers with a made-up story, they would organize their text with the fictional plot structure.Īuthor’s purpose and text structure go hand-in-hand. If an author wants to explain the negative impact of eating too much sugar, they would organize their text with a cause-and-effect text structure. If an author wants to describe the taiga biome, they would organize their text with a description text structure. If you think about it, the reason why an author is wanting to write a text will also impact how they organize their text as well… One of my favorite things to do when teaching author’s purpose (or any reading skill for that matter) is to show students how it connects to all the other reading comprehension skills that they have learned.Īuthor’s purpose has a strong connection to a lot of other reading skills and one of them is text structure. Idea #3: Author’s Purpose & Text Structure You could also include an example of each type of purpose if you want to get real fancy.Provide a chart with an explanation of what each type of purpose is (like the picture).List out what each letter of InDEEP stands for.Possible Title: Author’s Purpose or Why Authors Write.Since author’s purpose is really so much more complex than just PIE, I like to use this anchor chart when teaching students the different reason’s why authors write. This helps break down nonfiction texts just a little bit better and starts to connect the author’s purpose to text structure (which I’ll cover in the next anchor chart. If you use the InDEEP acronym to introduce author’s purpose to your students, you’ll cover the following: When introducing author’s purpose, I like to exaplain that the author’s purpose is basically their reason for writing the text. ![]() The acronym InDEEP literally goes a little bit deeper than PIE in explaining the different types of author’s purpose. I prefer to use the acronym INDEEP to teach upper elementary students the different types of author’s purpose.
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