Some author's purpose teaching ideas from a standardized test preparation site (Fourth Grade Reading Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test). Aligned to Florida standards, four ideas are provided including "Author's Grab Bag," "Author's...

A lesson plan in which students read short texts and sort them according to the author's purpose: to persuade, to inform, or to entertain. Materials are included. [PDF]

Practice identifying author's purpose by recognizing the purpose in titles, understanding the difference between fact and opinion, and identifying the purpose of various forms of writing.

Site provides extensive assistance in preparing 4th grade students for Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. This section focuses on identifying the author's purpose.

Good introduction and graphics make this a solid page for understanding the orbital role in bonding and molecular geometry. The author is a professor at Florida State University.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Little Ones' Welcome by Favorite American Authors (1886), featuring illustrated stories and poem.

A lesson plan in which students sort questions into one of four types: On My Own, Author and Me, Right There, and Think and Search. Materials are included.

Read the definition of author's purpose and click on links to strategy information and student activities.

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this instructional activity, 8th graders analyze two nonfiction articles and a short video that look at NASA, changes to the space shuttle program, and future possibilities in the United States space...

A lesson plan in which learners read short texts and sort them according to purpose: persuade, inform, entertain, and explain. Materials are included. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.6

This site offers PDF grade-specific lesson plans for teaching various reading skills for grades K-3. These include phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

This site offers questions to guide all facets of reading instruction broken down by grade level, grades K-3.

This tutorial explains point of view in informational texts. Students will learn how to analyze multiple accounts of the same topic or event and identify similarities and differences in different points of view.

Digitization of Ruth Baldwin's 40-year collection of children's literature provides the user a glimpse into childhood memories. Literature primarily from the 19th and 20th century. Searching on a vast array of titles, such as Alice in...

This site provides information on books by and about several Florida authors; scroll down to see the information on Rawlings. The site provides useful overviews of her major works and one work about her.

Florida Gulf Coast University's research and analysis of the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. This is a comprehensive overview of his work.

Four peer-reviewed essays by university students analyzing aspects of Dickinson's poem, "I dwell in Possibility." One essay reveals that Dickinson developed her own philosophy that bridges the conflict between Puritanism and...

The text of one of Cooper's lesser known novels, "Jack Tier; or, The Florida Reef." The text can be read online or downloaded by individual chapters in MP3 or PDF format. In addition, each chapter has downloadable support material which...

Come and visit this informative site featuring information on Susan Glaspell. Students and teachers will benefit from this comprehensive resource.

In this tutorial, students will take a virtual trip to a library and learn how to identify the genre, author, and illustrator of a book. After listening to short segments from a magical wizard, students will identify books that are story...

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1866), a children's classic novel including a biography of the author.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1866), a children's classic novel including a biography of the author.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner by Daniel Defoe (1866), a children's classic novel including a biography of the author.

Printable, fifty-five page PDF file of a staff development manual containing strategies for teaching reading. Includes chapters on vocabulary, main ideas and supporting details, author's purpose, chronological order, plot and conflict...