Reading - Evaluate Author's Purpose

In reading we have been learning to….evaluate writer's purposes and consider how they have used structure and language to suit these purposes. (e.g.  I can make decisions about why the writer has written a piece of writing and how they have used particular structures and words to meet their purpose.)

Here is a link to our online modelling book

We have been evaluating how well an author has achieved their purpose based on:

1. Specific Language choices made by authors.
2. Specific Structure choices made by authors.

These documents show evidence of my learning during this unit:

(link your own learning for each of these activities. Please make sure your sharing settings are open)

• Types of  Author's Purpose
• Explaining how writers use structure and language to meet their purpose.
• Evaluating Author's purpose 1
• Evaluating Author's purpose 2
• Evaluating Author's purpose 3

My Next Step: Is to continue to apply this new knowledge and evaluate texts as I read them, checking to see that the author is meeting their intended purpose.

Term 2 Book Reveiw

Castaway: 13 year old Sam Clark's parents died in a house fire. The book tells you his journey traveling on a ship to find his brother that works at sea. He makes new friends along the way. The ship wrecks on Disappointment Island. 15 of the 28 crew members survive; Sam being one of them. For 7 months they live on this Island eating Mollymawks and Seals. They make grass huts and fight for survival. After 7 months of living on this miserable island they are rescued by a science expedition.

I would recommend this to someone who enjoys reading about history. Its a hard book to get into but its an interesting journey.