• Description: Students create a blog post (using platforms like Google Sites or Blogger) analyzing the author's purpose in a short story or article. They must support their analysis with text evidence and their own reflections.

• Tech Tool: Google Sites, Blogger, or Wix.

Activity: Author’s Purpose Escape Room

• Description: Students design a digital “Escape Room” game using Google Forms or Genially, with puzzles and logic problems based on identifying author's purpose (persuade, inform, entertain).

• Tech Tool: Google Forms (with branching logic) or Genially.

• Description: Students use digital tools like Pixton or Canva to create comics that demonstrate different author purposes. Each frame should include a caption explaining the author's intent.

• Tech Tool: Pixton, Canva, or Storyboard That.

• Student-led Element: Students draft their own comics and present them to the class, explaining the author's purpose and design choices.

• Description: Students act out short skits that exemplify different author’s purposes and record them using tools like Flip or iMovie.

• Tech Tool: Flip (formerly Flipgrid), iMovie.