College Board
Evaluating Sources: How Credible Are They?
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,...
Read Works
Read Works: 3rd Grade: Author's Purpose: Lesson 2
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson plan helps students learn to identify an author's purpose.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Author: Jules Verne
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...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Author's Purpose Lesson
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...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Author's Purpose Worksheets
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...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Defining and Exploring an Author's Stylistic Choices
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...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Unit: The Author's Point Is
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...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Referencing the Author's Purpose
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
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Analyzing Data Sources and Author's Purpose: Electric Currents
In this science-themed literacy lesson, students learn how to determine the author's purpose and follow the development of that purpose.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Emily Bronte
This site features the author Emily Bronte including a biography and the full text of the novel Wuthering Heights.
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Classic Reader: Authors: George Du Maurier
This site features the author George du Maurier including the full text of the novel Trilby.
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Classic Reader: Authors: Alexandre Dumas
This site features the author Alexandre Dumas including the full text of seven novels including The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo.
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Classic Reader: Authors: Lina Redwood Fairfax
This site features the author Lina Redwood Fairfax including the full text of the short story "The Misfortunes of Bro' Thomas Wheatley."
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Classic Reader: Authors: Martha Finley
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.
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Classic Reader: Authors: Gustave Flaubert
This site features the author Gustave Flaubert including a biography and the full text of five novels including Madame Bovary and Salammbo.
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Classic Reader: Authors: Homer
This site features the author Homer including the full text of the epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey written in prose.
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Classic Reader: Authors: Victor Hugo
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.
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Classic Reader: Authors: John Keats
This site features the author Franz Kafka including a biography and the full text of the long poem Lamia.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Writers and Authors
This resource provides information about careers, including writers and authors.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: R. D. Blackmore
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.
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Classic Reader: Authors: Lizzie W. Champney
This site features the author Lizzie W. Champney including the full text of the short story "The Heartbreak Cameo."
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Classic Reader: Authors: Charles W. Chesnutt
This site features the author Charles W. Chesnutt including the full text of the novel The House Behind the Cedars.
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Classic Reader: Author: Bayard Taylor
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?"
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Classic Reader: Author: Andy Adams
This site features the author Andy Adams including the full text of five novels and 14 short stories.
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