This site focuses on the author Jules Verne. It includes a link to his biography and links to the full text of eleven novels: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in 80 Days, Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon, Five Weeks in a...

Contains plans for two lessons that teach young scholars how to recognize an author's use of style in literature. These plans use "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston as an example, but the basic ideas can be adapted to...

Young scholars 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...

Learn four questions you can ask while reading an informational text to determine the author's point of view. Includes practice worksheet.

In this science-themed literacy lesson, students learn how to determine the author's purpose and follow the development of that purpose.

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides information about an author study. Students will find a multi-step project to help students effectively investigate an author during research. Reproducible graphic organizers are provided.

This site features the author Emily Bronte including a biography and the full text of the novel Wuthering Heights.

This site features the author George du Maurier including the full text of the novel Trilby.

This site features the author Alexandre Dumas including the full text of seven novels including The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo.

This site features the author Lina Redwood Fairfax including the full text of the short story "The Misfortunes of Bro' Thomas Wheatley."

This site features the author Gustave Flaubert including a biography and the full text of five novels including Madame Bovary and Salammbo.

This site features the author Homer including the full text of the epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey written in prose.

This site features the author Victor Hugo including the full text of three novels: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables, and Toilers of the Sea.

This site features the author Franz Kafka including a biography and the full text of the long poem Lamia.

This resource provides information about careers, including writers and authors.

This site features the author R. D. Blackmore including the full text of four novels including Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor and Mary Anerley.

This site features the author Lizzie W. Champney including the full text of the short story "The Heartbreak Cameo."

This site features the author Karl Marx including the full text of The Communist Manifesto.

This site features the author Andy Adams including the full text of five novels and 14 short stories.

This site features the author Rex Ellingwood Beach including the full text of 10 novels and 21 short stories.

A slideshow with twenty slides with information and examples of four different purposes an author can have for writing a text: to entertain, to persuade, to express, or to inform/explain.

Learn the techniques an author uses to share his or her point of view on a subject then practice identifying an author's purpose on your own.

Biography of American popular author and humorist Mark Twain, with personal and career information, and a list of important works.

In this lesson, students will explore ways authors use text structures to convey meaning through cause and effect, sequencing, comparison, and more.