Curated Video
Author's Purpose
Learning authorś purpose with this video is as easy as pie! This is an interactive video to teach students how to determine the author´s purpose of the text: Persuade, Inform, or Entertain.
Townsend Press
Argument
Form well-crafted arguments with the help of an educational video. Fourth graders study various examples of persuasive arguments, including thesis statements and cartoons, and observe the ways that supporting details can enhance the...
Townsend Press
Purpose and Tone
A powerful image or well-placed comment always has intention behind it. Guide young readers through author's purpose and tone with a language arts video that explains why word choice is key in writing clearly and coherently.
Curated OER
The AuthorÕs Purpose
A good reader thinks about the author's purpose while reading a book. Students use the acronym P.I.E. to remind them how to think about author's purpose: persuade, inform, and entertain.
Curated OER
Theme
Identifying the theme of a piece is crucial to understanding. Using the play Romeo and Juliet as an example, the concept of theme is explored in a video of a classroom lecture.
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Christopher Paolini Delivers the Inheritance Manuscript
This video of Christopher Paolini shares his discussion about the delivery of the Inheritance manuscript to his editor at Random House.
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Christopher Paolini Looks Back
This site shares a video of the author, Christopher Paolini, as he takes a look back at how it all began with Eragon, and discusses the conclusion to the series, Inheritance.
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Christopher Paolini Talks About Vroengard Academy
This site shares an interview with Inheritance's author, Christopher Paolini. In this interview, he talks about Vroengard Academy and what's coming next for the Inheritance cycle.
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Launch
This video shares insights into the background to the book Inheritance by Christopher Paolini. In this interview, he shares information about the fourth and final book in the series.
Other
Outside the Book: George Ella Lyon
This Outside the Book video episode features an interview with George Ella Lyon, an adult and children's book author. She expresses her approaches to writing and gives a brief overview of The Pirate of Kindergarten, one of her most...
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Determine Author's Purpose Using Text Evidence
In this lesson, you will learn how to determine the author's purpose by asking, "Why did the author write this?" and using text evidence to prove his purpose. [10:04]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Consider an Author's Choices and Purpose Using Text Structure
In this lesson, you will learn how to think about the choices an author made by asking "Why did the author choose to write it this way instead of that way?" [2:41]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Lesson Video for 'Determine an Author's Purpose'
In this lesson, you will learn how to determine an author's purpose by considering his choice of audience. [6:27]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Identify Author's Purpose: Analyze How Multiple Themes Interact
In this lesson, you will learn how to identify an author's purpose by analyzing how multiple themes interact throughout a text. [7:01]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Lesson Video for 'Determine an Author's Point of View'
In this lesson, you will learn how to determine the author's point of view by analyzing key phrases in a section of text. [5:04]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Use Text Structure to Understand Author's Purpose
In this lesson, you will learn how to understand an author's purpose by thinking about why the author chose a particular text structure. [2:32]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Analyze a Text's Structure
In this lesson, you will learn to organize information by using text structure clues. Login gives access to an additional video. [4:42]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Determining Author's Purpose
In this lesson, you will learn to understand an author's purpose by thinking about why the author chose to write in a particular text structure. Login gives access to an additional video. [4:22]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Explain How an Author Uses Rhythm to Express Point of View
In this lesson, you will learn how the author uses rhythm to express point of view by identifying the rhythm of a poem and determining what the author is trying to tell the reader through the rhythm. Login gives access to a slideshow and...
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Make Connections Between the Text and an Illustration
In this lesson, you will learn how to identify where an illustration reflects specific descriptions in the text by examining illustrations and asking_ How did this author use the illustration? Login gives access to a slideshow and a...
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Determine the Theme of a Text
In this lesson, you will learn to determine the theme of a story by asking what did the author want me to learn from reading this story? [3:50]
EngageNY
Engage Ny: Determine Author's Purpose and Analyze Use of Rhetoric
Students participate in a Socratic seminar and demonstrate how to determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.
Other
You Tube: Identify Purpose and Audience
This video [1:25] focuses on identifying an audience to write based on the purpose for writing.
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Identify the Purpose of an Opinion Essay
In this lesson, you will learn how to identify the purpose of an essay by using the action verbs and the subject in a prompt. Login gives access to a slideshow and a second video. [5:08]