Author's Purpose

This week, our comprehension skill was Author's Purpose. I always like to do a read aloud before my mini-lesson that relates to our skill we are going to be learning. To teach Author's Purpose, we go over that author's write for 2 reasons (this is a very elementary explanation, obviously) to inform, or to teach us or to entertain, or make us laugh. I read a funny story, one of our favorites, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus and Wild Baby Animals. We talked about how they had very different purposes. In Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, the author wanted to entertain us. In Wild Baby Animals, we discussed how in this book, the author wanted to teach us. We learned a lot about baby animals. This was a wonderful lesson and we learned a lot.