Create and edit digital products that are appropriate in subject, occasion, audience, point of view, purpose, and tone.
Arizona Academic Standards:
8.W.4
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.W.8.4
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE8W4
Tennessee Academic Standards:
8.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.)
Louisiana Academic Standards:
W.8.4
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks:
W.8.4
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.)
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
8W4
Create a poem, story, play, artwork, or other response to a text, author, theme or personal
experience; explain divergences from the original text when appropriate.
Wisconsin Academic Standards:
W.8.4
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:
8.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:
8.V.5
Determine how word and phrase choice, including analogies or allusions to other texts, contributes to the meaning, style, and/or tone of a text.
8th 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
8th Grade Writing - Author's Purpose Lesson