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Reading Standard 4.a - Level 8
Identify an author’s purpose and the text’s historical/cultural context from information presented in the text.
Standard in Kid Friendly Language
Give the author's purpose (reason) for creating a given piece of writing (to inform, persuade, or entertain) using the content and details of the writing.
Provide the historical/cultural background or use in a piece of writing, using the content and details that are given or inferred.
Standard Unwrapped
KNOW
Recognize a piece of writing for informative, persuasive, or entertainment purposes.
Identify various historical periods to be able to recognize them in reading.
Identify cultural backgrounds to be able to recognize them in reading.
ABLE TO DO
Define the meaning of inform, persuade, and entertain.
Without help from others while reading, classify the purpose of a piece of writing: to inform, persuade, or entertain.
Without help from others, locate details and use inferences to determine the historical/cultural context of a piece of writing.
Instructional Strategies
Model the determination of various author's purposes for different readings by using a "think-aloud" strategy for each of them.
Provide given readings using different author's purposes; analyze, discuss, and label them.
Use various readings to compare and contrast the details that constitute a specific author's purpose to inform, persuade, or entertain.
Gather various examples of grade level historical writings (fiction and nonfiction) to be placed in a timeline to identify their contextual references.
Gather various examples of grade level writings with cultural details, overtones or inferences to identify and/or categorize them.
Assessment Strategies
Given a specific piece of literature that the student has not previously read, the student will correctly identify the author's purpose, using the instructional strategies as needed.
Given the author's purpose for a piece of literature, the student will determine the details.
Using an outline or details from a piece of literature provided, the student will determine the author's purpose.
Given a list of suggested purposes, the student will select the best or correct one.
Independently, the student will orally state or write the author's purpose of a given piece and defend why it is the purpose.
Resources
Projects and Activities
Use highlighters while reading to find details that illustrate author's purpose to inform, persuade, or entertain.
Select appropriate traditional and popular song lyrics to locate and analyze references to various historical/cultural contexts.
Discuss, compare and contrast various examples of author's purpose and historical/cultural context models, using tables, charts, or other graphic organizers.
Create a model of historical/cultural contexts or an author's purpose, using samples of writing from various genres.
