Reading Assessment:I can evaluate writers’ purposes and consider how they have used structure and language to suit these purposes. (Eg: I can make decisions about why the writer has written a piece of writing and how they have used particular structures and words to meet the purpose.)

Assessment: I can evaluate writers’ purposes and consider how they have used structure and language to suit these purposes. (Eg: I can make decisions about why the writer has written a piece of writing and how they have used particular structures and words to meet the purpose.)

Name:      Choose 3 out of the following texts:  

World’s Largest Artificial Sun	The World will end, said the cat	Mossie
Laundry Folding Robot	Fallen Leaves	Can giant pumps help refreeze the Artic

L5 Author’s Purpose follow up	I can describe the author's purpose in relation to structure and language choices in a text and give relevant evidence (eg vocabulary used)	I can compare and contrast differences in the author's purpose in relation to structure and language choices between different texts.
Text: Laundry Folding Robot	The author’s purpose is… Inform The specific language/ structure choices that the author has made to support their purpose are: Diagrams, facts, informative videos, pictures.	Specific language choices in the 3 texts:	Structure of the 3 texts:
		Similarities Two of the articles were about Informing you/the reader. Two of the texts (the articles) were about problems they are trying to solve.	Similarities All of them had pictures in the article. All of them are about real life happenings. (the cat one talked about war and other things that go on in the real world)
Text: Can giant pumps help refreeze the Artic	The author’s purpose is… Inform (but a bit of persuading at the start) The specific language/ structure choices that the author has made to support their purpose are… Pictures, videos, diagrams (in videos), facts, scale (just before the second paragraph).
Text: The World will end, said the cat	The author’s purpose is… Entertain The specific language/ structure choices that the author has made to support their purpose are: Emotive language, facts (like what the world is really like; in the story), pictures.	Differences One of the 3 texts was a story not an article.	Differences 1. Only two have videos (the other is a written story). One was a story.

Text: Sneaky Venus Flytraps Use Prey For Nutrients And Energy

Level 5 - Authors’ Purpose Map
I can describe the author’s purpose in a text	I can identify several features of the author’s purpose The author’s purpose is Inform The point of view is: Third Person. The intended audience is: high school students, young adults.	I can identify several features of the author’s purpose; and explain giving relevant examples and evidence. What does it say in the text to show you that: this is the author’s purpose this is the point of view this is the intended audience
The author’s purpose is… P? I? E? Inform	The authors purpose is Inform because if it was persuade it would be a different type of text eg: The venus fly trap is way better than any other plant for catching flies! If it was Entertain then it would be more of a joke and they might put some funny facts or other types of text that would make you want to simply laugh about it. It is Informing you about the Venus Fly Trap and it tells you it uses it’s prey for nutrients and energy.	The fact that the Dionaea muscipula, or Venus flytrap, feeds on unsuspecting insects by luring them into its jaw-like leaves with sweet-smelling nectar has been known for centuries. The researchers, who published their findings in the      scientific journal New Phytologist on January 20, reached this conclusion after feeding the plants highly enriched isotopes. In 2016, Ranier Hedrich, a biophysicist at the University of Würzburg, discovered that the Venus flytrap does not waste energy snaring victims
The point of view is: Third Person.	The point of view is Third Person because if it were to be first person, it would be written like this: We thought the prey only provided the plant with essential nutrients like nitrogen. If it was second person it would be like: Next you feed your Venus Fly Trap these different bugs so that it grows big and strong! So it would have to be Third Person which means that the author is telling you about other people (or maybe his/her self) and what they are doing with the Venus Fly Trap.	However, scientists thought the prey only provided the plant with nutrients and... A team led by Dr. Heinz Rennenberg and Lukas Fasbender from the University of Freiburg in Germany has uncovered that the crafty plants use the proteins. The researchers, who published their findings in the scientific journal New Phytologist on January 20, reached this conclusion after feeding the plants highly enriched..
The intended audience is… High school Student or young adult.	The intended audience is a High school student or Young adult because they use big words and there is also a scientific side to it which means smaller children couldn’t understand what they are trying to tell you. They also probably won’t know what a Venus Fly Trap is!	Enriched isotopes of carbon and nitrogen glutamine. This is not the first time the Venus flytrap has impressed scientists. The smart plant knows that this could be the result of the wind or a raindrop. It is only when the unsuspecting creature triggers the sensory hair a second time that it gets trapped inside the leaf.
	I can generalise about the author’s point of view Overall the authors point of view was Third Person, the intended audience was young adult and the Author’s purpose was Inform because… Third person means the author is telling you about the article in a way that talks about other people other than his/her self. The intended audience was young adult (or high school student) because younger minds wouldn’t understand the article as much as people it’s aimed for. The authors purpose was Inform because it’s Informing you/ the reader about what the article is about (no jokes or funny facts) and it’s not trying to persuade you to choose a venus flytrap if your looking to buy fly spray or a plant that eats them, it’s trying to tell you what they’re found out in their science lab about this plant.