In this lesson, you will learn how to determine the author's purpose by asking, "Why did the author write this?" and using text evidence to prove his purpose. [10:04]

In this lesson, you will learn how to determine the central idea of a text by determining the topic and asking what the author says about it. [6:57]

In this lesson, you will learn to determine the author's bias by asking, "What information is left out and why?" [8:48]