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Comprehension Skill First Grade Unit 2 Week 3 Created by Kristi Waltke

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1 Comprehension Skill First Grade Unit 2 Week 3 Created by Kristi Waltke
Author’s Purpose Comprehension Skill First Grade Unit 2 Week 3 Created by Kristi Waltke

2 Let’s Review

3 The main idea of a story is what the story is mostly about.

4 Cause and Effect The cause is the girl swings the club and hits the ball. The effect is the ball moves. A cause is something that makes something else happen. An effect is what happens.

5 The reason an author writes a story is called Author’s Purpose.
Authors may write to explain something or give information. Authors may write to be funny or to entertain readers.

6 Why do you think that Melissa Blackwell Burke wrote Who Works Here?
To tell a make-believe story about people in a neighborhood To help readers learn more about the people who work in a neighborhood

7 To tell a funny story about class-mates that put on a play
Why do you think that Pat Cummings wrote The Farmer in the Hat? To tell a funny story about class-mates that put on a play To teach kids how to make a stage for a play

8 To tell an entertaining story of the unexpected way Max got his fish
Why do you think that Rosemary Wells wrote A Big Fish for Max? To tell an entertaining story of the unexpected way Max got his fish To teach kids how to fish like Max

9 Thinking about an author’s purpose will help you become a super reader!


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