Student: Caitlin Kellegher Professor: David Sills

Course: EDU 550B Date: 3/7/2016

Grade: Fifth Topic: Author’s Purpose Content Area: English

Instructional Objective
Following a discussion on the author’s purpose, the students will create an Author’s Purpose Pie.
They will then use various examples to identify each category of the author’s purpose. This will
be done with 90% accuracy.
NYS Standards and Indicators
Language Arts (NYS Standard RL.5.6): Craft and Structure
Students will describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are
described.

Indicator:
● This will be evident when students are able to correctly identify the purposes of the
passages.
Language Arts (NYS Standard SL.5.4): Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Students will report on a topic or text or present an opinion, sequencing ideas logically and using
appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly
at an understandable pace.

Indicator:
● This will be evident when students participate in class by responding to prompts, and by
sharing their answers with the class.
Motivation
● Students will discuss their favorite pies and what ingredients are needed to make a pie.
Students will look at a pie recipe to determine the necessary ingredients.
Materials
● SMART Board, markers, crayons, colored pencils, scissors, tape, worksheets, and
pencils.
Strategies
● Direct instruction, indirect instruction, and hands on involvement.
Adaptations
● The student who has ADHD will be provided with a checklist that shows step by step
instructions for the lesson.
Differentiation of Instruction
The students will be given an option based on learners’ interests to show comprehension of the
author’s purpose. Students may be interested in presenting the author’s purpose through a model,
as slides in a presentation, or as a creative original story that includes two or more examples of
author’s purpose.
 Developmental Procedures
● The teacher will present a SMART Notebook presentation on author’s purpose. (What is
author’s purpose? What type of text may try to convince the reader to do something or
agree/disagree with something? How do you know? Describe a text that informs the
reader. What kind of texts are meant to entertain the reader? How do you know?)
● The students will create an Author’s Purpose Pie. (How many purposes were you able to
identify? Were you able to remember all of them? Why or why not? What are the possible
purposes of an author’s writing?)
● The students will practice some examples as a class on the SMARTBoard. (How did you
decide which purpose matched each text? Could any of the examples fit under more than
one category? How did you determine which category was the best fit? Were you able to
correctly figure out which purpose matched each text? Why or why not?)
● The students will practice some problems individually on a worksheet. (Were you able to
identify the author’s purpose without help? Why or why not? What were some passages
that were used to persuade the reader? What were some passages that were used to
inform the reader? What were some passages that were used to entertain the reader?
How do you know?)
Assessment
The teacher will observe on a teacher created checklist:
● Students understanding by having each category of the author’s purpose and each
description on the Author’s Purpose Pie.
● Students understanding by correctly identifying the author’s purpose on the worksheet.
Independent Practice
● Students will use their reading logs from last week to examine the author’s purpose of the
texts they read. After they determine the purpose, they will bring this information into
class to share the next day.
Direct Teacher Intervention
● For students who did not meet the objective, the teacher will provide these students with
small group direct instruction from the teacher. The teacher will use diagrams and
examples to help students gain an understanding of the author’s purpose.
Academic Enrichment
● For students who met and exceeded the objective of the lesson, they will be given the
opportunity to write a passage that is meant to either persuade, inform, or entertain.

Teacher References

Author’s Purpose. edHelper.com. Retrieved from http://edhelper.com/authors_purpose.htm

Flay, B. Apple Pie. Food Nation. Toronto, Canada. Food Network. Retrieved from

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/bobby-flay/apple-pie-recipe.html