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EngageNY

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 12

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
How can opinions slant facts? Workshop participants learn how to examine primary and secondary sources and identify the author's point of view. They also examine how visual art impacts the meaning and rhetoric of sources. Full of...
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EngageNY

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 15

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What do a cheetah, Audi commercial, and air have in common? They're all topics of an engaging inquiry-based, hands-on workshop for educators about background knowledge, reading strategies, the CER model, and argumentative writing. The...
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EngageNY

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 6

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Is a college education necessary for success in today's world? The class investigates the question, along with others at the end of the sixth workshop in a 15-part series. The instructional activity has four parts with multiple...
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Read Works

Read Works: 3rd Grade: Author's Purpose: Lesson 2

For Teachers 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson plan helps students learn to identify an author's purpose.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Texts With Similar/different Author's Purpose

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on being able to identify the author's purpose in a specific text. Specifically, it's about looking at several authors' works on the same topic and...
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Read Works

Read Works: Lesson: Author's Purpose: Cause and Effect Signal Words

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] With this lesson plan, students can learn how several authors can write about the same topic, but for different purposes.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Finding the Author's Purpose

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
What is autism? How does it affect behavior? Students will find evidence of the author's tone or purpose for writing the article, as well as hints that show evidence of opinion. Includes a video clip from the movie "Rainman", and an...
Study Guide
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Author's Purpose

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Site provides extensive assistance in preparing 4th grade students for Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. This section focuses on identifying the author's purpose.
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Read Works

Read Works: Fourth Grade: Three Lesson Unit: Author's Purpose

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on author's purpose where students learn to identify author's purpose, categorize texts according to author's purpose, and change author's purpose by rewriting a text. With free...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Author's Purpose Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this learning module, students will learn about authors' purposes for writing. PowerPoint lessons, worksheets, and quizzes are provided to reinforce the understanding of why authors write assorted pieces. This module is designed to...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Author's Purpose Worksheets

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this learning module, students will learn more about author's purpose. Worksheets and PowerPoint lessons are provided to help students analyze authors' purposes more effectively. This module is designed to support Tier I, Tier II, and...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Author's Purpose Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Identifying author's purpose scavenger hunts are included on this tutorial site. Students will scan their textbooks and find different purposes that are addressed in different sections of them.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Referencing the Author's Purpose

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson explains how to reference an author's purpose when answering a reading comprehension question. This tutorial shares an audio version of the lesson's content. [3:14] RI.11-12.6 Eval Purpose, Rhetoric, Style
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Author's Purpose Worksheets

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Several worksheets and assessments are provided on this module. Learners will have numerous exposures to the topic of "author's purpose" in each practice exercise and assessment.
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Author's Purpose: Reading Test 2

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
A ten-question quiz on identifying whether an author's purpose is to persuade, inform, or entertain the reader. Students are asked to type an explanation for each answer. Results can be printed, saved, or emailed.
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Author's Purpose: Reading Test 3

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
A ten-question quiz on identifying whether an author's purpose is to persuade, inform, or entertain the reader. Students are asked to type an explanation for each answer. Results can be printed, saved, or emailed.
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Author's Purpose 3rd Grade

For Students 3rd Standards
Learn about author's purpose with these links to flashcards, a learning activity, a spelling activity, a test, a matching game, and a gravity game.
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South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Author's Purpose Pie

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third graders will determine the authors purpose in creating a story.
PPT
Tom Richey

Slide Share: Author's Purpose and Point of View

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This downloadable slideshow focuses on how an author's purpose and point of view work together in fiction and nonfiction, and how to identify the point of view.
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That Quiz

That Quiz: Author's Purpose

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
In this 10 question, self-grading quiz, students read a topic and label the author's purpose as to inform, entertain, or persuade. The quiz is timed, but not limited.
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Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Analyzing Data Sources and Author's Purpose: Electric Currents

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this science-themed literacy lesson, students learn how to determine the author's purpose and follow the development of that purpose.
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Sam Houston State University

Sam Houston State University: Author's Purpose and Point of View: Pretest

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Answer multiple-choice questions about the author's point of view and identifying the author's purpose within a short text in this ten question pretest.
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Sam Houston State University: Author's Purpose and Point of View: Post Test

For Students 7th Standards
Identify the author's purpose in this ten-question multiple choice test.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Author's Purpose and Tone

For Students 9th Standards
React to chapter thirty from A Lesson Before Dying to explore the author's purpose and tone.

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