Author's Purpose Interactive Practice Sites

Links verified on 9/7/2009

1. Audience and Purpose - lab activity to help students write with a purpose for an audience
2. Audience and Purpose - another lab activity to help students write with a purpose for an audience
3. Author's Point of View - Slide Show format - Grades 3-5
4. Author's Purpose - Click on Number 4. Interactive video lesson and quiz
5. Author's Purpose - [designed for grade 4] This FCAT Express lesson is followed by an interactive quiz
6. Author's Purpose - Many resources to select from.
7. Author's Purpose - [15 multiple-choice questions] lab activity to identify an author's purpose in a paragraph
8. Author's Purpose Pop-Up - twenty question multiple choice quiz sat Quia
9. Author's Purpose Pre-Test - Ten multiple-choice questions, answers available
10. Author's Purpose Post-Test - Ten multiple-choice questions, answers available
11. Author's Purpose Practice - [designed for grade 4] Identify the author's purpose of each piece.  Then, support your answer with evidence from the piece.
12. Author's Purpose Quiz - Click on Skip to go past the introduction. Click on number 4 to practice about author's purpose.
13. Author's Purpose Review - This interactive review at FCAT Explorer explains each purpose then gives you passages to read and select the author's purpose. When you finish, click on Try More Practice to see another passage.
14. Different Types of Text - Do you understand the purpose of different text types and the main differences between them? Online quizzes.
15. Evaluate Author's Purpose - Read story and print answer sheet for completion.
16. Identifying the Author's Purpose - [designed for grade 4] This review lesson is followed by a practice quiz
17. Reading for a Purpose - 9 activities to check understanding about the purposes of different sorts of text.
18. Reading Skills Rocket: Author's Purpose - read three passages, decide author's purpose and then select a sentence that would fit in the passage.
19. Text Types - Online game helping learn about the different text types such as persuasion, informative, descriptive, or instructive.