Reading skill
Author's purpose
Ask why the writer included this part: to explain, to persuade, to entertain or to show something.
Example (How to Plant a Bean Seed, Grade 2)
Why did the author write this text?
Answer: to explain how to grow a bean plant from a seed. The goal at the top says what the steps are for.
Grade 2
- How to Plant a Bean Seed How-to
- How to Measure Rainfall How-to
- How to Press a Flower How-to
Grade 3
- How to Make a Paper Airplane How-to
- How to Make a Simple Compass How-to
- How to Make a Shadow Clock How-to
Grade 4
- The Frog That Freezes Information
- How to Wash Your Hands How-to
- How to Make a Fruit Salad How-to
Grade 5
Grade 6
- Built For Survival: the Polar Bear Information
- Built For Survival: the Red-Eyed Tree Frog Information
- Built For Survival: the Monarch Butterfly Information
- Built For Survival: the Bald Eagle Information
- Built For Survival: the Hummingbird Information
- Built For Survival: the Arctic Fox Information
- Built For Survival: the Octopus Information
- Built For Survival: the Sea Turtle Information
- Built For Survival: the Salmon Information
- Built For Survival: the Scorpion Information
- Built For Survival: the Kiwi Information
- Built For Survival: the Hedgehog Information
- Built For Survival: the Platypus Information
Grade 7
- Built For Survival: the Camel Information
- Built For Survival: the Fennec Fox Information
- Built For Survival: the Sea Otter Information
- Built For Survival: the Koala Information
- Built For Survival: the Beaver Information
- Built For Survival: the Chameleon Information
- Built For Survival: the Snowy Owl Information
- Built For Survival: the Gorilla Information
- Built For Survival: the Honeybee Information
- Built For Survival: the Walrus Information
- Built For Survival: the Springbok Information
- Built For Survival: the Moose Information
- Marie Curie: How One Life Changed the World Biography
- Ada Lovelace: How One Life Changed the World Biography
- Jane Goodall: How One Life Changed the World Biography
- Thomas Edison: How One Life Changed the World Biography
- Louis Pasteur: How One Life Changed the World Biography
- Isaac Newton: How One Life Changed the World Biography
- Srinivasa Ramanujan: How One Life Changed the World Biography
- Frederick Banting: How One Life Changed the World Biography
- Fiona Wood: How One Life Changed the World Biography
- Kathleen Lonsdale: How One Life Changed the World Biography
Grade 8
- Built For Survival: the Emperor Penguin Information
- Built For Survival: the Humpback Whale Information
- Built For Survival: the Giant Panda Information
- Built For Survival: the Great White Shark Information
- Built For Survival: the Komodo Dragon Information
- Built For Survival: the African Elephant Information
- Built For Survival: the Kangaroo Information
- Built For Survival: the Roadrunner Information
- Built For Survival: the Giraffe Information
- Built For Survival: the Sloth Information
- Built For Survival: the Bengal Tiger Information
- Built For Survival: the American Bison Information
- George Washington Carver: How One Life Changed the World Biography
- Alexander Graham Bell: How One Life Changed the World Biography
- Katherine Johnson: How One Life Changed the World Biography
- Mae Jemison: How One Life Changed the World Biography
- Wangari Maathai: How One Life Changed the World Biography
- Ernest Rutherford: How One Life Changed the World Biography
- Kalpana Chawla: How One Life Changed the World Biography
- Mary Anning: How One Life Changed the World Biography
- Allan Cormack: How One Life Changed the World Biography
Grade 9
- Marie Curie: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
- Ada Lovelace: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
- Jane Goodall: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
- Thomas Edison: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
- Louis Pasteur: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
- Isaac Newton: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
- Srinivasa Ramanujan: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
- Frederick Banting: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
- Fiona Wood: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
- Kathleen Lonsdale: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
Grade 10
- George Washington Carver: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
- Alexander Graham Bell: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
- Katherine Johnson: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
- Mae Jemison: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
- Wangari Maathai: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
- Ernest Rutherford: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
- Kalpana Chawla: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
- Mary Anning: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
- Allan Cormack: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography