Author’s Purpose Activity – Digital Task Cards

This Author’s Purpose Activity in digital form has been designed to make learning about author’s purpose engaging and fun. This set of slides helps students to develop a deeper understanding of why author’s write texts: to persuade, inform and to entertain. Students are guided through a variety of drag and drop and typing in text box activities that require them to do the following:

• Identify if statements about the author’s purpose are true or false.
• Identify and sort author’s purpose in different sentences or book titles.
• Sort sentences based on their purpose
• Explain their reasoning for classifying texts

How to Use this Digital Interactive Author’s Purpose Activity in the Classroom

This Author’s Purpose Activity – Digital Task Cards is perfect for reinforcing key reading comprehension skills in an engaging and interactive way. Whether used as a whole-class lesson, small-group activity, or independent practice, these task cards help students analyze and classify texts based on their purpose.

Here are some ways to incorporate this resource into your classroom:

• Whole-Class Activity – Display the task cards on an interactive board and have students discuss and justify their answers together.
• Small-Group Work – Assign groups of students to collaborate on sorting and classifying different texts.
• Independent Practice – Allow students to work through the digital task cards at their own pace, checking their understanding as they go.
• Early Finisher Task – Provide the activity as an extension task for students who complete their work early.
• Assessment Tool – Use the completed activity to gauge student comprehension of author’s purpose concepts.

Explore this Author’s Purpose Activity Today!

Use the dropdown menu to download this Author’s Purpose Activity in either Google Slides or PowerPoint. Make sure to keep it in edit mode to ensure the drag and drop function.

This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher and a Teach Starter Collaborator.

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