This RI.2.6 Author's Purpose 2nd grade reading unit is full of standards-based lesson plans, anchor charts, worksheets, task cards, Lexile passages, and activities to use while you are teaching the standard RI2.6. If you are not teaching Common Core, then the unit is still valuable to use when teaching students to find the author's purpose (persuade, entertain, inform) and explain how the author conveys their purpose (explain, answer, describe).Please check out the preview to see ALL that you're