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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Finding the Author's Purpose

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
What is autism? How does it affect behavior? Students will find evidence of the author's tone or purpose for writing the article, as well as hints that show evidence of opinion. Includes a video clip from the movie "Rainman", and an...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Tone Worksheets and Lessons

For Teachers 4th - 9th Standards
This learning module provides remediation and extra practice with identifying an author's tone. Reinforcement for understanding author's tone is provided through the five different worksheets and a mini-lesson. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.4
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Diction and Tone (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Evaluate the diction in a text and discover the author's tone.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Diction and Tone (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson will help students identify diction and tone in their reading and will help them answer these questions: What does the author mean? What is the author's attitude about what he or she is writing? How will my understanding of a...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Evaluate Tone in Various Media for Audiences and Purposes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze How Author's Style and Syntax Support Meaning

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on understanding an article or essay by looking past mere words on a page to the choice and arrangement of those words in order to analyze the way writers express themselves. The choice and arrangement of words make...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Evaluate Tone in Various Media for Different Audiences & Purposes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Audience, Tone, and Style in Informative Text

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Students will read samples of informative writing and highlight examples of how tone and style are used by the authors. Students will then apply this knowledge by writing their own informative text. Multiple examples of student work and...
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Rags to Riches Author's Tone and Point of View

For Students 8th Standards
Answer questions about author's purpose, tone, and point of view in this Rags to Riches style game.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Unit: The Author's Point Is

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
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...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Literary Elements and Techniques: Tone and Mood

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explore the difference between tone and mood in this animated video [2:28] from WNET through definitions and examples from poetry and prose. Discussion questions below help students to further apply their understanding before analyzing a...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway:diction and Tone (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this learning module, the user will learn and apply the concepts of tone and diction. Tone is the author's attitude toward the writing. Tone is largely determined by diction or the words that an author chooses.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Author's Purpose and Tone

For Students 9th Standards
React to chapter thirty from A Lesson Before Dying to explore the author's purpose and tone.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Character, Tone and Theme

For Teachers 9th Standards
Ninth graders will read chapters 28- 31 of A Lesson Before Dying. They participate in a whole-class discussion about the changes that occur in the main characters and how these changes relate to lessons being learned. Students will...
PPT
Other

Prezi: Tone, Diction, and Analysis of Word Choice

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Slideshow explores the connection between word choice and the author's tone.
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Other

Blackboard: Author's Point of View (Attitude and Tone)

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Learn about author's attitude and tone, and see examples of tone used to convey nostalgia, cynicism, and sentiment in a text. This is an excellent resource for helping students identify key words and phrases that give clues about the...
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British Library

British Library: 19th Century Non Fiction Texts: Crime & Punishment

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This thematic collection will allow students to read and understand 19th-century non-fiction texts, and support them in identifying key features for a range of genres, audiences, and purposes. Each source is accompanied by original...
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British Library

British Library: 19th Century Non Fiction Texts: Work & Welfare

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This thematic collection will allow students to read and understand 19th-century non-fiction texts, and support them in identifying key features for a range of genres, audiences, and purposes. Each source is accompanied by original...
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British Library

British Library: 19th Century Non Fiction Texts: Gender, Behaviour & Etiquette

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This thematic collection will allow young scholars to read and understand 19th-century non-fiction texts, and support them in identifying key features for a range of genres, audiences, and purposes. Each source is accompanied by original...
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British Library

British Library: 19th Century Non Fiction Texts: Education

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This thematic collection will allow students to read and understand 19th-century non-fiction texts, and support them in identifying key features for a range of genres, audiences, and purposes. Each source is accompanied by original...
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Punctuation and Style

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A nine-slide presentation discussing how to use punctuation to create or reflect the author's style. W.9-10.1d Style/tone/conv
Activity
Caro Clarke

The Art of the Unspoken: Saying More by Describing Less

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the thirteenth article in a series that was developed to help the new novel author. This article focuses on how good descriptions aren't necessarily connected with a lot of words, good descriptions are clean and to the point.
Article
Caro Clarke

Rewriting

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the 17th article in a series that helps the new fiction author with the final step--revision.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Listen to the Word Choice of Authors: Crafting a Poem

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will analyze a poem's word choice and then create a poem of their own using word wall vocabulary.

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