Create and edit digital products that are appropriate in subject, occasion, audience, purpose, and tone.
Arkansas Academic Standards:
W.7.4
Louisiana Academic Standards:
W.7.4
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
Arizona Academic Standards:
7.W.4
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.W.7.4
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE7W4
Tennessee Academic Standards:
7.W.PDW.4
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1-3 above.)
Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks:
W.7.4
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)
For example, students studying the genre of mystery stories write narratives in which they introduce a variety of characters with distinctive traits, create plausible yet mysterious events, use vivid descriptions to create mood, use foreshadowing clues that point to the solution of the mystery, and resolve the mystery with an explanation by one of the characters. (RL.7.10, W.7.3, W.7.4)
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
7W4
Create a poem, story, play, artwork, or other response to a text, author, theme, or personal
experience.
Wisconsin Academic Standards:
W.7.4
Independently and collaboratively produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are culturally-sustaining and rhetorically authentic to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)
Arkansas Academic Standards:
7.W.4.P
Construct clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience.
Arkansas Academic Standards:
7.V.5
Determine how word choice, including rhyme and repetition, contributes to the meaning, style, and/or tone of a text.
7th Grade Writing - Author's Purpose Lesson
Author's Purpose
When authors write a text, they have in mind a specific purpose, or what they want to achieve in the text. This is known as the author’s purpose. Authors write texts for many different purposes.
These are common types of author’s purposes:
Instruct: includes steps in a process and directions
Entertain: uses humor, narration, tells a story, etc.
Inform: includes mainly facts and information
Persuade: tries to get the reader to believe, think, feel, or do something