This activity engages students in evaluating authors’ purpose. Students sort passages into three categories of author’s purpose: persuade, inform, and entertain.
This strategy provides students with the opportunity to engage in rich, peer-to-peer, conversations with their classmates. This resource includes an overview of the strategy and clear directions to support implementation.
This resource requires the following modification to explicitly target listening comprehension: shift the burden of decoding/encoding onto the educator (i.e., the educator should read/write instead of the student(s)).
