This activity engages students in evaluating authors’ purpose. Students sort passages into three categories of author’s purpose: persuade, inform, and entertain.
Mapping the Internal World of a Character is a strategy that gives students the opportunity to examine character’s emotions. This resource includes an overview of the strategy and clear steps to support practitioner preparation and 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)).
