EngageNY
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 6
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 lesson has four parts with multiple activities and...
EngageNY
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 15
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...
Read Works
Read Works: Fourth Grade: Three Lesson Unit: Author's Purpose
[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...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Texts With Similar/different Author's Purpose
[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...
Read Works
Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Author's Purpose
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to identify author's purpose including to entertain, to inform, and to persuade. Lessons are based on the books The Adventures of Taxi Dog by...
Read Works
Read Works: Author's Purpose 3rd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on author's purpose. In the first lesson, students practice identifying the author's purpose as to entertain, to persuade, or to inform. In the second lesson, students use graphic...
TES Global
Blendspace: Authors Purpose
A five-part learning module with links to videos and an image on author's purpose.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Texts With Similar/different Purposes
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson is about 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...
Room Recess
Room Recess: Author's Purpose
Read short texts and determine whether their purpose is to inform, entertain, or persuade in order to move around the board in this online learning game. Click on video lessons for an understanding of author's purposes including types of...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Evaluate Tone in Various Media for Audiences and Purposes
This lesson features several weather videos, both real and created, to help students understand how information and the tone changes based on the audiences and the purposes for the presentation.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Purpose
This slideshow lesson focuses on purpose; it defines purpose and lists the two main purposes of all writing: to educate (didactic text meaning to inform and instruct) or to entertain (imaginative text). The purpose could also be art for...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Evaluate Tone in Various Media for Different Audiences & Purposes
This lesson will help you evaluate changes in formality and tone within printed texts written for specific audiences and purposes. It focuses on writing produced during the Great Depression.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Unit: The Author's Point Is
Students will focus on Main Idea, Author's Purpose, Identifying supporting details and Organizing details. Students will read a variety of Informational Text (non-fiction) to understand how stated and implied main idea effect the...
Read Works
Readworks: Reading Lesson 3: To Persuade
This lesson focuses on identifying text evidence that shows that the author's purpose is to persuade. Draw a conclusion about what the author is trying to persuade the reader to do or think. Text, worksheet, and chart are provided.
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University of South Florida
Fcat Express: Teaching Strategies (Reading) [Pdf]
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...
Read Works
Read Works: Fifth Grade: Five Lesson Unit: Leaf by Leaf: Autumn Poems
[Free Registration/Login Required] A five lesson poetry unit focusing on main idea, tone, theme, author's purpose, and figurative language in poetry. Texts must be provided by the teacher, but handouts that go along with the lesson are...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Explain the Controlling Idea, Purpose, and Distinguish Details
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will learn how to pinpoint the controlling idea, which not only identifies the main idea, but also answers questions about the author's goal or...
Utah Education Network
Uen: What Makes the Writer Write?
This activity engages learners in reading and research related to the Victorian Era. Students will analyze this time period's influence on the writings of Charles Dickens. Then learners will analyze how today's authors incorporate social...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: From Here to Narnia
This lesson will provide eighth grade Language Arts young scholars with an inquiry-based research project based on C. S. Lewis' classic, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The student will determine the author's purpose in writing...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature and Composition: Contemporary Prose
This lesson is an introduction to a unit on postmodern prose; students will be reading a novel or play of their choosing from a list provided. They will be expected to reflect on the work through reflective journaling and a timed...
PBS
Pbs American Masters: Willie Nelson: All Together Now!
This lesson plan is based on Willie Nelson lyrics, and the PBS feature on him. It focuses on brainstorming and choral reading skills. In addition to the lesson plan, there is information on how to do guided reading and choral reading.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Girls Playing High Impact Sports
Analyze and annotate a model response focusing on the author's argument regarding allowing girls to play high impact sports. Then revise and edit your work based on the model. This will help you develop work that is clear and coherent...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Analyze and Annotate a Model Response
Analyze and annotate a model response focusing on support for a claim. Then revise and edit your work based on the model. This will help you develop work that is clear and coherent and appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Analyze and Annotate a Model Response
Analyze and annotate a model response focusing on the claims made in the model. We will then revise and edit our work based on the model. This will help us develop work that is clear and coherent and appropriate to the task, purpose, and...