Sunday, February 10, 2013

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!)

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Authors-Purpose-Writing-Activity-Bulletin-Board-FREE

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