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One Text, Several Purposes and Audiences (Grades 6 to 8)

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Grades 6–8 Language · Author’s Purpose and Point of View

One Text, Several Purposes and Audiences (Grades 6 to 8)

Several purposes in one text for Grades 6 to 8: read a made-up visitor guide to a marsh boardwalk, tell what each part is for and who it targets, find a sentence that informs and persuades at once, and explain how the purposes build on each other. With an answer key.

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Tell why an author wrote a text (to persuade, to inform, to entertain) and what the author thinks, who a text is written for, which form of writing fits a purpose and an audience, and name the narrator's point of view (first, second or third person, limited or all-knowing) and how it shapes what the reader learns.

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  • Have the student underline the pronouns in the passage first: I and we, you, or he, she and they.
  • For each answer, have the student give a quote that shows it.
  • Ask what the reader knows that a character does not, for questions about irony and point of view.

Common mistakes

  • Calling a story first person because it has dialogue with "I". Look at the narration, outside the quotation marks.
  • Mixing up third person limited and omniscient. Omniscient narration shows what several characters think.
  • Calling any surprise irony. Irony is a gap between what is expected and what happens or is meant.

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