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,...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson plan helps students learn to identify an author's purpose.

Read about the life and death of Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird.

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...

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...

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

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this activity, students learn about the roles of authors and illustrators through games and book-writing. Students will have an opportunity to act out the roles of illustrators and authors. They will...

This site offers an organized collection of biographical information on Dorothy Parker.

A brief biography of the award-winning author and illustrator, Vera B. Williams.

This site features the author Alice Dunbar including the full text of 14 short stories including "Little Miss Sophie" and "When the Bayou Overflows".

This site features the author Ella D'Arcy including the full text of the short story "Irremediable".

This site features the author Harry Stillworth Edwards including the full text of the short story "Elder Brown's Backslide".

This site features the author George Eliot including a biography and the full text of five novels: Adam Bede, Brother Jacob, The Lifted Veil, Middlemarch, and Silas Marner.

This site features the author T. S. Eliot including a biography and the full text of the poetry collection Poems, which contains 24 poems including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "A Cooking Egg."

This site features the author Juliana Horatia Ewing including the full text of the novel The Yew-Lane Ghosts and 24 short stories including "Amelia and the Dwarfs" and "An Idyll of the Wood."

This site features the author Lina Redwood Fairfax including the full text of the short story "The Misfortunes of Bro' Thomas Wheatley."

This site features the author Jeffrey Farnol including the full text of seven novels including The Amateur Gentleman and The Moon Money.

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.

This site features the author Gustave Flaubert including a biography and the full text of five novels including Madame Bovary and Salammbo.

This site features the author Oliver Wendell Holmes including the full text of the novel The Guardian Angel and the short story "A Visit to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Punsters."

This site features the author Anthony Hope including the full text of four novels including Dolly Dialogues, Frivolous Cupid, The Prisoner of Zenda, and Rupert of Hentzau.

This site features the author Omar Khayyam including a biography and the full text of the two editions of the poem Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

This site features the author Basil King including the full text of three novels and the nonfiction work The Fear of Conquest.

This resource provides information about careers, including writers and authors.