Lumen Learning
Lumen: American Literature: Reader Response Criticism
This lesson focuses on reader-response literary criticism including the purpose of reader response, the structure of a reader-response essay, how to criticize with examples, and an example of a reader-response essay using "The Secret...
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Ksu: Point of View: First Person Narrator
This tutorial surveys the uses and limitations of first-person narration in literature. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.9
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Wisewire: Grades 9 10 Playlist: Analyze How an Author Unfolds an Argument
This is an example of how to analyze how an author unfolds an argument. It provides an example and links to use for practice. RI.9-10.3 author unfolds
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Informational Text: Analyze an Argument: Practice 1
When you read an argumentative essay or article, you should analyze the author's evidence. However, you can't analyze the evidence a writer gives in support of a position if you don't know the author's perspective.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Organization Appropriate to Purpose, Audience, and Context
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to adjust the organization of your essay to make it appropriate for different purposes, different audiences, and different contexts.
Leaf Group
Classroom: How to Write Narrative Conclusions
This article focuses on how to write conclusions for narratives by sharing a takeaway message, a lesson or a reflection -- a new discovery of meaning in life -- for your reader. W.9-10.3e Conclusion, W.11-12.3e Narrative Conclusion
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Texas Gateway: Analyze Point of View in Literary Texts/fiction
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn to identify the primary points of view used in fiction and weigh the advantages and disadvantages of each.
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Texas Gateway: Informational Text: Analyze Graphical Sources: Practice 2
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to evaluate the clarity and visual appeal of images and other graphic elements included in a reading text. Practice exercises are included.
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Texas Gateway: Analyze How Author's Style and Syntax Support Meaning
In this lesson, we will discuss how an author's syntax reveals meaning and makes ideas stay with the reader. Practice exercises are included.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Reading Comprehension Across Genres: Annotate for Meaning
This lesson focuses on Annotation, a "writing-to-learn" strategy. It consists of writing explanatory notes and critical (analytical) commentary to yourself. Annotating text consists of two steps: (1) underlining, highlighting, circling,...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Literary Essays' Inclusion of Personal Opinions and Facts
In this lesson, you will learn how to identify and discuss the use of facts, personal examples, and ideas and how they are woven into a literary essay.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Character Development and Relationships in Hamlet
A lesson plan relating to Hamlet whose objective is to able to "analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text". Lesson includes a hook, direct instruction, guided practice, and...
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Brock University: Critical Reading: A Guide
In addition to thoroughly exploring the purposes and functions of an analytical essay, this resource provides students with step-by-step instructions for reading and analyzing poetry, prose-fiction, and fiction. The site also offers...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Author's Purpose Worksheets
Several worksheets and assessments are provided on this module. Learners will have numerous exposures to the topic of "author's purpose" in each practice exercise and assessment.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: 5.1 Writing About Literature: The Basics
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn the basics of how to write about literature by asking subjective and objective questions; use tone, diction, and syntax; identify plot elements, and...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Do You Know How?
Students will write in a technical genre. "Technical writing conveys specific information about a technical subject to a specific audience for a specific purpose. The words and graphics of technical writing are meant to be practical:...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity: Evaluating Writing
Students can learn how to grade an essay with a rubric in this activity. The essay is a sample from Big History essay called "Early Earth". The goal of this activity is for students to understand the rubric so they can write their own...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Organizing Information Quick Guide
Organizing information questions ask you to understand and analyze how a passage works to make an argument. What is the progression of ideas in the passage? or What is the purpose of a specific paragraph?
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Sat Reading Test: Rhetoric
Details about Rhetoric on the SAT Reading Test. One definition of the word rhetoric is "the study of writing or speaking." Rhetoric questions on the Reading Test assess how well you understand the choices that authors make as they...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Sat Reading Test: Information and Ideas
The Information and Ideas category of the SAT Reading Test includes questions that focus on what the passage says (directly or indirectly). To interpret the author's message, you'll need to consider both what's stated and what's implied...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Sentence Structure
We will analyze the structure of a sentence from "After 450 Years, We Still Don't Know the True Value of Shakespeare" to determine how understanding the sentence deepens our understanding of the text.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club: Style and Tone
Analyze and annotate a model essay focusing on style and tone.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club: Author's Message
Read "I Stand Here Ironing" from The Joy Luck Club, and consider the message about motherhood.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Author's Purpose and Tone
React to chapter thirty from A Lesson Before Dying to explore the author's purpose and tone.