Nt1310 Unit 2 Assignment

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The first lesson begins with a whole group lesson that introduces identifying the author’s purpose of a text. The majority of the lesson is spent defining the four main types of author’s purpose. During lesson one, all of texts will have a central theme, pollution. The children will be able to see an example of each type of author’s purpose written about the same subject matter. This experience provides a concrete delineation between the different type of purposes. The students will take notes on each type of purpose and learn shared traits of each type of purpose during this lesson. For example, when the author’s purpose is to persuade, the text will always use convincing words. Using the text with a central theme as a whole, students will have practice using the essential literacy strategy of analyzing author’s …show more content…
The main lesson activity is group rotations with multiple text examples for each type of author’s purpose. Students will each be given a recording sheet and each rotation will focus on one of the types of author’s purpose. There will be four rotations and at each rotation will be different samples of fiction and nonfiction text in the form of task cards. Using these task cards, the students will analyze the author’s purpose and verify that the card belongs at that station. After verifying, the students will be asked to analyze the texts to find common characteristics of how the purpose of text is presented. These common words and phrases will clarify how the author’s purpose has affected the text and make it easier for the students to identify the author’s purpose of a text. As the students rotate through the four stations they will have opportunities to analyze over twenty pieces of text for author’s purpose. The students will also be practicing familiarity with multiple concepts of print as they read a sample of varying genres and types of