Part one of a mid-unit assessment relating to The Omnivore’s Dilemma includes listening to and analyzing a speech by Birke Baehr. Part two involves analyzing an excerpt from the text. The assessment ends with short response questions.

On June 26, 1963 President John F. Kennedy delivered his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech close to the Berlin Wall at the Rudolph Wilde Platz. On June 12, 1987 President Ronald Reagan Delivered his famous "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down...

With the end of the year quickly approaching it's time to find out exactly how much your sixth graders have learned. Specifically designed for the Common Core ELA standards, this practice test gives students five reading passages,...

An assessment takes a close look at the story, Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt, and tests writing abilities. Over the course of two days, scholars read an excerpt, answer questions on a worksheet pertaining to the author's...

Several worksheets and assessments are provided on this module. Students will have numerous exposures to the topic of "author's purpose" in each practice exercise and assessment.

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.

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.

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.

This interactive assessment features 6 multiple-choice over author's purpose terms and examples: The terms are to persuade, inform, and entertain.

An online learning activity where students read four titles and choose what the author's purpose for each text would be: to inform, to entertain, or to persuade.

Read each text description and determine if its purpose would be to entertain, inform, or persuade in this five question quiz.

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...