2.9.E.i
The Standard
stating what the author is trying to persuade the reader to think or do
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading · The student recognizes and analyzes genre-specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse texts.
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify the belief or action an author wants readers to accept. They use words, reasons, and images in the text to explain their answer.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students state the author’s intended belief or action in one clear sentence. They point to a phrase, reason, or image that supports their answer.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may name the topic instead of the author’s message. They may also confuse an interesting fact with the action or belief the author supports.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short advertisement. Ask, “What does the author want you to think or do, and which words helped you decide?”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs three short ads and sticky notes, then have them label what each ad wants readers to think or do.
Read a school lunch poster and ask, “What does the author want students to believe, and what words show that?”
Play Persuasion Match by matching text cards with purpose cards such as buy it, try it, help, agree, or change a habit.
Examine a recycling sign from school and identify the action it requests and the reason it gives.
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Related Standards
- 1.9.E
recognize characteristics of persuasive text with adult assistance and state what the author is trying to persuade the reader to think or do; and
- 4.9.E.ii
explaining how the author has used facts for an argument; and
- 5.9.E.ii
explaining how the author has used facts for or against an argument; and
- K.8.E
recognize characteristics of persuasive text with adult assistance and state what the author is trying to persuade the reader to think or do; and
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