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College Board

Evaluating Sources: How Credible Are They?

For Teachers 7th Standards
How can learners evaluate research sources for authority, accuracy, and credibility? By completing readings, discussions, and graphic organizers, scholars learn how to properly evaluate sources to find credible information. Additionally,...
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Read Works

Read Works: 3rd Grade: Author's Purpose: Lesson 2

For Teachers 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson plan helps students learn to identify an author's purpose.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Author: Jules Verne

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses on the author Jules Verne. It includes a link to his biography and links to the full text of eleven novels: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in 80 Days, Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon, Five Weeks in a...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Author's Purpose Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this learning module, students will learn about authors' purposes for writing. PowerPoint lessons, worksheets, and quizzes are provided to reinforce the understanding of why authors write assorted pieces. This module is designed to...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Author's Purpose Worksheets

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this learning module, students will learn more about author's purpose. Worksheets and PowerPoint lessons are provided to help students analyze authors' purposes more effectively. This module is designed to support Tier I, Tier II, and...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Defining and Exploring an Author's Stylistic Choices

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Contains plans for two lessons that teach students how to recognize an author's use of style in literature. These plans use "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston as an example, but the basic ideas can be adapted to other...
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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...
Handout
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Referencing the Author's Purpose

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson explains how to reference an author's purpose when answering a reading comprehension question. This tutorial shares an audio version of the lesson's content. [3:14] RI.11-12.6 Eval Purpose, Rhetoric, Style
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Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Analyzing Data Sources and Author's Purpose: Electric Currents

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this science-themed literacy lesson, students learn how to determine the author's purpose and follow the development of that purpose.
Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: Emily Bronte

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author Emily Bronte including a biography and the full text of the novel Wuthering Heights.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: George Du Maurier

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author George du Maurier including the full text of the novel Trilby.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: Alexandre Dumas

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author Alexandre Dumas including the full text of seven novels including The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: Lina Redwood Fairfax

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author Lina Redwood Fairfax including the full text of the short story "The Misfortunes of Bro' Thomas Wheatley."
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: Martha Finley

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author Martha Finley including the full text of 12 children's novels about Elsie, such as Elsie at Nantucket and Elsie at the World's Fair.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: Gustave Flaubert

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author Gustave Flaubert including a biography and the full text of five novels including Madame Bovary and Salammbo.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: Homer

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author Homer including the full text of the epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey written in prose.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: Victor Hugo

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author Victor Hugo including the full text of three novels: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables, and Toilers of the Sea.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: John Keats

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author Franz Kafka including a biography and the full text of the long poem Lamia.
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US Department of Labor

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Writers and Authors

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information about careers, including writers and authors.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: R. D. Blackmore

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author R. D. Blackmore including the full text of four novels including Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor and Mary Anerley.
Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: Lizzie W. Champney

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author Lizzie W. Champney including the full text of the short story "The Heartbreak Cameo."
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: Charles W. Chesnutt

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author Charles W. Chesnutt including the full text of the novel The House Behind the Cedars.
Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Author: Bayard Taylor

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author Bayard Taylor and provides links to two novels Beauty and the Beast and Tales of Home and the short story "Who Was She?"
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Author: Andy Adams

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author Andy Adams including the full text of five novels and 14 short stories.

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