1. 3rd Grade, Language Arts Mary Ruebusch McCurdy School
Author’s Purpose
3rd Grade, Language Arts
Mary Ruebusch
McCurdy School
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2. Teacher’s Page
Objective: This activity is intended to let students see what an author may be thinking while writing a poem.
Activity: Students will read the poem
and the author’s notes. They will answer
in journals.

3. Teacher Page Procedure: 1. Read the poem and author notes.
2. Answer questions in a journal.
3. Discuss answers.

4. Sun Tag The Wind and the Sun Played tag all day. The Sun was it,
The Wind ran away.

5. Author’s Notes
When I was writing this poem I was thinking about the weather principle of high and low pressure. I wanted to describe how the heat from the Sun causes the wind to blow.
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6. Personify: to make
an object like a
person
When I write poetry I like to personify my subject. Including at least one rhyme is also important to me.

7. Think about the poem. Why do you think the author called this poem ‘Sun Tag’?
Write in your
journal.

8. Write in your journal. Why did the poet write this poem?
What weather principles
was the author thinking
about?
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to find
answer

9. What is personified in this poem? How is it personified?
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for clues.

10. Think of another example of personification.
Write in your journal.
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