Identify the author's purpose (i.e., to inform, to entertain, to share feelings, to describe, to persuade). SPI 0501.8.9

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1. Author's Purpose - read A Winning Breakfast and answer questions on paper - a detailed explanation follows passage, teaching how to find the answers in passages
2. Author's Purpose - read Save the Wilbur and answer questions on paper - a detailed explanation follows passage, teaching how to find the answers in passages
3. Author's Purpose Interactive Practice Sites - a collection of resources at Internet4Classrooms
4. Author's Purpose Worksheets and PowerPoint Shows - a collection of resources at Internet4Classrooms
5. Expository Essays:
   1. Expository Writing - Eight different examples of expository organizational patterns
   2. A Lesson in Expository Writing -The Personal Touch: - This lesson uses examples of such communication as a springboard for practice in expository writing. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
   3. Expository Writing Tips! - The information was taken from "Blowing Away the State Writing Assessment Test" by Jane Bell Kiester available through Maupin House Publishing. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
   4. Expository Writing Plan - Use this information to help create your essays. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
   5. Writing a "How-to" Explanation - Student model as an example
6. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Someone a Letter - historical letters help students do some real-world writing
7. Information and Activities for Modes of Writing - Links to various modes of writing.
8. Narrative Essays :
   1. Multiple Paragraph Essay - Pointers on writing an essay. [This expired page is from the Internet Archive known as the Wayback Machine.]
   2. Narrative Essay - Article and help on writing narrative essay.
   3. Step by step guide - Guide on writing an essay.
   4. Student Writing Tools Handbook - [25 pages] Transitions, rubrics, grammar, citations, and more [This expired page is from the Internet Archive known as the Wayback Machine.]
   5. Template for writing a narrative - Scaffolding guide for students
   6. Writing a Personal Narrative - Student model as an example
9. Persuasive writing
   1. Can you Convince me? - Lesson plan
   2. Persuasive Writing Prompts used in past Writing Assessments in Tennessee - Grade 5 ; Grade 8 ; Grade 11 These expired links are available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the pages don't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
   3. Persuasive Writing Prompts from a home schooling site
   4. Scholastic's Writing Workshop - You already spend a lot of time trying to persuade your parents or teachers to allow you to watch more TV or do less homework. Now you can use those same skills to write a persuasive essay!
   5. Truth in Advertising - evaluate the type of persuasive writing being employed
   6. Writing a Persuasive Essay - Student model as an example
   7. Writing to Persuade - Persuasion means making someone with a different point of view from your own change their mind to your way of thinking.
   8. Writing to Persuade Rubric - Perhaps your students can understand writing to persuade better by seeing this rubric. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
10. Write for a Real Purpose - Lesson plan

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