Author's Purpose
Kansas Reading Assessment - This chart connections between text type and author's purpose:
| Text Type |
Author's Purpose |
| Narrative | To Entertain |
| Expository | To Explain, Inform |
| Persuasive | To Convince, Persuade |
| Technical | To Instruct,Tell How |
Author's Purpose Chart - This graphic organizer allows students to collect examples of author's purpose from multiple points in a passage to help them determine the author’s overall purpose for writing.
Author's Purpose and Tone of Voice - This is a high school lesson by Patricia Penrose.
Graphic Organizer - shows visually the four text types with questions to identify author's purpose
Identifying Persuasive Text - This handout provides helpful questions to use when trying to discriminate between expository and persuasive text.
