Description
Help students explain why an author wrote a text.
- Grades: 2
- Format: Printable pages + Google Slides
Learning Objective
Students will identify the author’s purpose and support the answer with text evidence.
What's Included
- 12 practice passages and 3 assessments.
- 3 anchor charts, an author’s purpose sorting activity, and teacher guidance.
- Scaffolded comprehension questions and answer keys.
- Printable PDF and Google Slides formats.
- Classroom use
- Use anchor charts and selected passages to model the skill during whole-class instruction, practice passages for small groups or independent work, and assessments to check understanding. Rainbow Reading encourages students to color-code evidence and build the habit of returning to the text to support answers.
- Passage titles & Lexile levels
- Tying Your Shoes — 430L
- Decomposing to Add — 500L
- Building a Snowman — 500L
- Pizza! Pizza! — 630L
- African Elephants — 530L
- Fresh Chocolate Chip Cookies — 560L
- Saint Lucia Day — 760L
- Paris, France — 780L
- Dogs vs. Cats — 530L
- How Do Clouds Work? — 710L
- How Do Fish Breathe Under Water? — 750L
- Are School Uniforms Best? — 810L
- Assessment: Making a Paper Airplane — 620L
- Assessment: What Causes Colors in Nature? — 730L
- Assessment: The Grand Canyon — 800L
Ways to Use
Whole-class instruction, small groups, independent practice, or enrichment.
Preparation
Preview the student pages, choose the activities, and print the pages you need. For digital use, check device and internet access and assign the version you will use.
Standards & Skills
Source-listed alignment: RI.2.6.
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I love this resource! I love that my students have to prove their answers and they have to look back through their stories to find evidence. I love that I can use this as a whole class and in a small group. Thank you so much for creating these.
Samantha Cooley –
Authors purpose is probably one of the harder standards to teach to 2nd graders. I loved using this resource to help supplement my teaching of this standard.
Elora P. –
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JMD Designs –
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Room to Roam Resources –
LOVE these passages and how they were updated to reflect the most recent ELA standards for my grade level. I was able to use these just as intended and it saved me so much time! Students need lots of practice with this skill, and these passages were perfect for that! Thank you!
Bobbie M. –
My students enjoyed using these passages and they really helped improve their text evidence skills.
Kelly K. –
I love your units! I use them for small group as well as independent work during small group time. I love how the kids can highlight their answers in the text-to show their evidence of where they found their answers. These are great! Thank you!
Learning with Ms Windley –
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Simply Second Grade –
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I used this for my small group reading. I was able to differentiate based on Lexile and it had really helped my students.
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This is a phenomenal resource! It is hard to find ADE materials; most author’s purpose materials focus on PIE. This was exactly what I needed to teach my standard.