Identify the purpose for writing (i.e., to inform, to describe, to persuade). SPI 0601.3.1

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Grades 6-8 Educating Powerful Writers is a complete writing curriculum. There are 7-8 distinct units per grade which include outlines of daily lessons, mentor writing texts for each unit, guidance for assessment, sample handouts, and sample lesson plans.

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1. Author's purpose activity - This section includes a variety of activities designed to help you determine the author's purpose. Follow the directions on each screen and complete the activities
2. Author's Purpose - online quiz with self checking
3. Author's Purpose - read A Winning Breakfast and answer questions on paper - a detailed explanation follows passage, teaching how to find the answers in passages
4. Author's Purpose - read Save the Wilbur and answer questions on paper - a detailed explanation follows passage, teaching how to find the answers in passages
5. Author's Purpose Interactive Practice Sites - a collection of resources at Internet4Classrooms
6. Author's Purpose and Point of View - Pre Test - ten multiple choice questions [This expired page is from the Internet Archive known as the Wayback Machine.]
7. Author's Purpose and Point of View - Post Test - ten multiple choice questions [This expired page is from the Internet Archive known as the Wayback Machine.]
8. Author's Purpose Worksheets and PowerPoint Shows - a collection of resources at Internet4Classrooms
9. Expository Essays:
   1. Expository Writing - Eight different examples of expository organizational patterns
   2. The Expository Essay - Examples of expository essays
   3. Expository Writing Tips! - The information was taken from 'Blowing Away the State Writing Assessment Test' by Jane Bell Kiester available through Maupin House Publishing.
   4. Writing a 'How-to' Explanation - Student model as an example
10. Finding the purpose of each paragraph - from a site on preparing for the GRE
11. Game - Author's Purpose - matching game
12. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Someone a Letter - historical letters help students do some real-world writing
13. Information and Activities for Modes of Writing - Links to various modes of writing.
14. Information Elimination (6 - 8) model, instruct, and practice narrowing a topic for expository writing
15. Narrative Essays :
    1. Multiple Paragraph Essay - Pointers on writing an essay [This expired page is from the Internet Archive known as the Wayback Machine.]
    2. Narrative Essay - Article and help on writing narrative essay.
    3. Step by step guide - Guide on writing an essay.
    4. Student Writing Tools Handbook - [25 pages] Transitions, rubrics, grammar, citations, and more [This expired page is from the Internet Archive known as the Wayback Machine.]
    5. Template for writing a narrative - Scaffolding guide for students
    6. Writing a Personal Narrative - Student model as an example
16. Personal Narrative - writer's model
17. Persuasive writing
    1. Can you Convince me? - Lesson plan
    2. Graphic Organizer - scaffolding aid for your students as they plan their essay
    3. How are They Selling It? - students read three advertisements and evaluate the type of persuasive writing being employed
    4. Persuasive Writing Prompts from a home schooling site
    5. Scholastic's Writing Workshop - You already spend a lot of time trying to persuade your parents or teachers to allow you to watch more TV or do less homework. Now you can use those same skills to write a persuasive essay!
    6. Writing a Persuasive Essay - Student model as an example
    7. Writing to Persuade - Persuasion means making someone with a different point of view from your own change their mind to your way of thinking.
    8. Writing to Persuade Rubric - Perhaps your students can understand writing to persuade better by seeing this rubric.
18. Persuade Me - Using junk mail from home, students will be able to recognize and use persuasive techniques.
19. Purpose and Point of View - Choose the correct answer for each question. self checking.
20. Sample assignment - Invent an X-ray satellite, name it, draw a picture of it. Write a one- to two-page persuasion letter addressed to your Congressperson or essay for your local newspaper in order to obtain funding for your X-ray astronomy mission.
21. The writer's purpose and voice - from a site on preparing for the GRE
22. Writing Prompts - Narrative, Persuasive and Expository
23. Writing to Persuade - Persuasion means making someone with a different point of view from your own change their mind to your way of thinking.

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