Some author's purpose teaching ideas from a standardized test preparation site (Fourth Grade Reading Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test). Aligned to Florida standards, four ideas are provided including "Author's Grab Bag," "Author's...

Practice identifying author's purpose by recognizing the purpose in titles, understanding the difference between fact and opinion, and identifying the purpose of various forms of writing.

Site provides extensive assistance in preparing 4th grade students for Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. This section focuses on identifying the author's purpose.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Little Ones' Welcome by Favorite American Authors (1886), featuring illustrated stories and poem.

Read the definition of author's purpose and click on links to strategy information and student activities.

This site offers PDF grade-specific lesson plans for teaching various reading skills for grades K-3. These include phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

This site offers questions to guide all facets of reading instruction broken down by grade level, grades K-3.

This site provides information on books by and about several Florida authors; scroll down to see the information on Rawlings. The site provides useful overviews of her major works and one work about her.

Florida Gulf Coast University's research and analysis of the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. This is a comprehensive overview of his work.

Four peer-reviewed essays by university students analyzing aspects of Dickinson's poem, "I dwell in Possibility." One essay reveals that Dickinson developed her own philosophy that bridges the conflict between Puritanism and...

The text of one of Cooper's lesser known novels, "Jack Tier; or, The Florida Reef." The text can be read online or downloaded by individual chapters in MP3 or PDF format. In addition, each chapter has downloadable support material which...

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1866), a children's classic novel including a biography of the author.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1866), a children's classic novel including a biography of the author.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner by Daniel Defoe (1866), a children's classic novel including a biography of the author.

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...

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1861), including a biography of the author.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1861), including a memoir of the author.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1861), "from this world to that which is to come delivered under the similitude of a dream" with a memoir of the author.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Happy Hours by W.B. Conkey Company (c1894), a collection of stories and sketches for children from well-known authors.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Merry Moments by W.B. Conkey Company (c1894), a collection of illustrated stories and poems by various authors.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Magnet Stories for Summer Days and Winter Nights by W.H.G. Kingston, et al (c1875), a collection of illustrated short stories by various authors.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book At the Fireside by Mary D. Brine, et. al. (1890), a collection of one hundred original, illustrated children's stories by various authors.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1888). This is the children's classic Robinson Crusoe plus a memoir of the author and an essay on his writings.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Paul and Virginia by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1892), a novel set on the island of Mauritius under French rule tells the story of two friends who fall in love. It...