Pages 1 and 2 each hold three short texts on one animal: children decide whether each author wants to answer a question, explain how or describe. Pages 3 and 4 each make one point and give reasons for it. Pages 5 and 6 work with any nonfiction text: the author's purpose, and the author's point with its reasons.
Before pages 1 and 2, sort a few book covers from your library together: does this book answer a question, explain how, or describe? On pages 3 and 4, have children underline the point in one color and each reason in another.
Read a text together and ask "Why did the author write this? What do they want you to know?" Then ask your child to show you the reasons the author gives.
Short texts about kangaroos, elephants, bats and earthworms, written at a 2nd grade level. Children tell whether an author wants to answer a question, explain how or describe, and find the point an author makes and the reasons that back it up.
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