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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:analyze How Author's Style and Syntax Support Meaning

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this learning module, students will learn and apply the concepts of author's style and syntax.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: List of Spanish Language Authors

For Students 9th - 10th
An encyclopedia with a fantastic list of Spanish language authors, organized by country. List is weighted toward authors from Spain but includes at least 1-2 authors for Latin American countries. For some authors, biographical references...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Texts With Similar/different Author's Purpose

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on being able to identify the author's purpose in a specific text. Specifically, it's about looking at several authors' works on the same topic and...
Website
Nagoya University (Japan)

Nagoya University: British Authors on the Web

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent and detailed site which lists over 750 British authors. The site provides links to more information about each author and is categorized by alphabet and time period. Some links may no longer work in the archived URL.
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Other

The One and Only Ivan: Author Katherine Applegate

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the life of author Katherine Applegate in this brief biography.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: Emily Dickinson

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author Emily Dickinson including a biography, the full text of three poetry collections: Poems, Series 1, Poems, Series 2, and Poems, Series 3, each set of poems is listed by topics.
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Other

Arab World Books: Arab Authors' Home on the Web

For Students 9th - 10th
This page contains a listing of authors from the Arabic world. Authors are listed in alphabetical order according to their last name. To find an author, click on the name and you'll be taken to that writer's page where it contains a...
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Read Works

Read Works: Fourth Grade: Three Lesson Unit: Author's Purpose

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on author's purpose where students learn to identify author's purpose, categorize texts according to author's purpose, and change author's purpose by rewriting a text. With free...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Dialoguing With the Author: Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review the reading strategy of questioning the author, also referred to as "dialoguing" with the author. The "dialoguing with author" strategy is explained, and examples of how to use the...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Author's Purpose Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Identifying author's purpose scavenger hunts are included on this tutorial site. Students will scan their textbooks and find different purposes that are addressed in different sections of them.
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Texas Education Agency

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

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explore and practice the analysis of author's style and syntax to support meaning.
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Texas Education Agency

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

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, we will discuss how an author's syntax reveals meaning and makes ideas stay with the reader. Practice exercises are included.
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Author's Purpose: Reading Test 2

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
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.
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Author's Purpose: Reading Test 3

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
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.
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Read Works

Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Author's Purpose

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach young scholars to identify author's purpose including to entertain, to inform, and to persuade. Lessons are based on the books The Adventures of Taxi Dog...
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Author's Purpose 3rd Grade

For Students 3rd Standards
Learn about author's purpose with these links to flashcards, a learning activity, a spelling activity, a test, a matching game, and a gravity game.
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South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Author's Purpose Pie

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third graders will determine the authors purpose in creating a story.
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That Quiz

That Quiz: Author's Purpose

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
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.
Study Guide
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Author's Purpose

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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...
Activity
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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Other

The Authors Guild

For Students 9th - 10th
This is The Authors Guild homepage: "The nation's largest society of published authors."
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NC State University

Scribbling Women: American Female Authors

For Students 9th - 10th
Alluding to a famous Hawthorne quote, "Scribbling Women" is collection of dramatized stories written by American female authors. Some resources may require a free membership.
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Washington State University

Washington State University: American Authors: Bibliography on "Rip Van Winkle"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides an extensive bibliography of works by and about "Rip Van Winkle" and the author Washington Irving. Good site for finding resources.

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