Author's Purpose Pie... Yum!
Author's Purpose
At one of our team meetings at
school, we discussed Blooms Taxonomy and how to "bump up" our
teaching. My mind instantly went into brainstorming mode! The strategy of the
week in reading was author's purpose. Of course I was having my students find
author's purpose in the passages and did all sorts of games....which are posted
on my teacherspayteachers site:) But I realized that I really needed to get my
kids to "synthesize" and "evaluate." Gotta love Blooms
lingo! I came up with a writing activity which required the kids to CREATE
a paragraph for inform, entertain, and persuade from a topic they chose. Then I
thought, why not make it into a pie using a paper plate. The kids loved picking
their favorite pie flavor to color! To bump it up to EVALUATE on the
Blooms Triangle, I had the kids justify their paragraphs as they read it to
each other. I am glad to share my Author's Purpose Pie Writing Activity. The
rest of the Author's Purpose Unit is on www.teacherspayteachers.com
Enjoy!!
(Ok, I haven't figured out how to create links yet! If this doesn't work, please let me know!)
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