In order to set the stage for Author's Purpose, we talked about all the different purposes of texts and charted them.
Next, I showed them several video clips and they had to guess the purpose. Some of these videos are VERY long, so I used TubeChop to chop the video to the length I wanted. Here are the videos I used...can you guess the purpose?
In case you were wondering, I did chop the word "crap" out of the Duck Dynasty video.
Next, I split the kids into groups and gave them several texts. They created a T-chart in their reader's notebook and decided the purpose of each text. Afterwards, we reviewed each text and discussed how we knew the author's purpose.
FYI-these are NOT the answers on this T-chart
Most of the texts I used came from student magazines like National Geographic, Time for Kids, Scholastic News and Storyworks.
What a great lesson, Jen. Thanks for sharing. I had never heard of TubeChop before, but I bookmarked it. I will definitely be putting it to great use in the future. We were just reviewing Author's Purpose in my class today!
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