Grade 1 · English Language Arts and Reading Video Lesson
Discuss the author's purpose for writing text Video Lesson
Curriculum-aligned Grade 1 English Language Arts and Reading lesson video for Discuss the author's purpose for writing text. Use it for classroom preview, instruction support, or home review.
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Curriculum-aligned Grade 1 English Language Arts and Reading lesson video for Discuss the author's purpose for writing text. Use it for classroom preview, instruction support, or home review.
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Video Learning Notes
In this lesson, students learn to identify the author’s purpose for writing a text—whether to inform, entertain, or persuade—and understand how the way a text is organized helps the author achieve that purpose. Through reading, discussion, and activities, students practice explaining the author’s purpose and noticing text structure features that support it.
Learning Goals
- Explain why an author wrote a text (to inform, entertain, or persuade).
- Identify how the way a text is organized helps the author achieve their purpose.
- Use examples from a text to support ideas about the author's purpose and text structure.
Curriculum Context
Grade: Grade 1
Subject: English Language Arts and Reading
Curriculum: TEKS