Teachers, save “Author's Purpose Text Cover Sorting Task” to assign it to your class.

1. Choose 2. Use the clues on the cover and the title as well as what you may already know about the book to sort them into what you think the author's purpose was-Persuade (P) Inform (I) Entertain (E) 3. Use the tool to give an explanation about one example in each section. 4. Press the button at the end.