This activity engages students in evaluating authors’ purpose. Students sort passages into three categories of author’s purpose: persuade, inform, and entertain.
IXL is a comprehensive personalized learning platform that supports PK-12 math, language arts, science and social studies instruction. IXL has embedded diagnostic assessments that practitioners can use to identify students’ learning needs.
The Three Levels of Questions instructional strategy can support practitioners in providing students with an opportunity to engage with a text in increasingly complex ways.
During this activity students will listen to an Inference and take turns looking for the phrase on their gameboard that answers the Inference question.