Authors purpose activities first grade

Even and Odd Numbers- Great primary math worksheet. Follow up with skip counting by 2's!

These engaging author’s purpose activities help students move beyond PIE and encourage critical thinking.

Author's Purpose activities can be hard to find for first grade, but this is your one stop shop for everything you need!

Today I realized that we have two (TWO!) weeks left before Thanksgiving break and then three (THREE!) weeks until Christmas break. And, you all know what happens after Christmas right? The year flies by!! I took this to mean summer is right around the corner (don't burst my bubble!) The weeks really do just keep flying by....here's a look at what we did this week in room 205 - We're wrapping up our Mystery Genre with our real classroom mystery. I use the GEMS Mystery Festival "Who Borrowed…

Has PIE’ED made author's purpose more challenging? Don't worry! These 7 tips will have you teaching author’s purpose like a rockstar!

I wanted to make some charts for Author's Purpose that would appeal to my first graders. I went with the P.I.E acronym (Persuade, Inform, Entertain) but took it to the next level by actually using Pie as the text examples. I then added some Other Examples so the students would get additional visual examples of the different purposes. I have these up on my Teachers Pay Teachers site for only $2.00! ***UPDATE - I had a few requests to add an additional, optional 4th poster for "Explain". I…

Hello Everyone! Ultra quick share today! This week we'll be working hard on Author's Purpose. I wrote a quick little chant to help kids r...

This post is actually about an activity we did a few weeks ago. {I'm trying to catch up on all my posts!} I have seen on other blogs where teachers have students sort the books in the Scholastic catalogs that we all have lying around. I decided to incorporate that into our author's purpose is as easy as pie theme with this super fun activity. We have visited author's purpose throughout several units this year, so students were already very familiar with the concept. I had saved the…

Hello all! Isn't the beginning of the school year just crazy?! Has it always been this crazy?! This post is going to be a little long, because I feel like I have so much to catch up on! And I am using way too many exclamation points!!! Anyway..... Common Core really emphasizes digging deeper into the text. It's very hard to motivate students to do just that. It's a lot of work! This year, I decided to really push the fact that they have to be reading detectives. I thought this little book…