1st Grade English unit

Author Purpose for 1st Grade English

Students ask and answer questions about informational texts, notice why an author wrote a text, and compare facts across simple sources on the same topic.

Understand purpose, order, and comparison

Skills and lessons

Understand purpose, order, and comparison

Students will determine author purpose, follow informational sequence, connect ideas, and compare two texts on the same topic.

6 lessons

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What will students learn in Author Purpose?

Author Purpose helps students build 1st Grade english understanding through connected skills and short lessons. This unit includes skills such as Understand purpose, order, and comparison.

What skills are included in this 1st Grade English unit?

This unit includes skills such as Understand purpose, order, and comparison. The unit is broken into 1 skills and 6 lesson steps so students can practice one idea at a time.

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