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Grade 7, Reading and Language Arts Std #: 19 Determine the author’s purpose by identifying the mode of writing. Narrative Descriptive Expository Persuasive

Lesson Plans: Preparing for a Journey Descriptive and persuasive writing The Personal Touch A lesson in expository writing Choose Your Own Experience: A Hypertext Writing Experience A lesson in writing your own "Choose Your Own Adventure" story A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words Writing a detailed narrative

Resources: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill link to TIME Improving Your Writing Tips and advice on improving your writing Definitions of Modes of Writing Describes the purpose of the different modes of writing Suggestions for English Language Learners: ESL Ideas (B=Beginning; I=Intermediate; T=Transitional) (B, I, T) Students read newspaper articles, advertising slogans, joke and riddle books. (I, T) Students read short literary works and identify the author’s purpose. The students then can write sample paragraphs to describe and persuade. Other students can be asked to identify the purpose after the paragraphs are read to them. (T) Students write a narrative, descriptive, expository or persuasive sample on common themes. e.g. violence in schools, school uniform policies. Students put their work on the classroom bulletin board after completion.
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