How Can You Make Finding Author’s Purpose Easy for Students

I recently attended a Maria Banks training, and she suggested ways to help students identify the author’s purpose for writing a passage.  Below is the list of clues that we developed to help students identify a passage.  I am sure there are more that we didn’t think of that can be added.  To help students identify these, create a chart in class with the students, and make an anchor chart of author’s purpose clues.

Download Author’s Purpose chart here.