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.

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

An informative answer with links to more learning for the question, "What is author purpose?"

A slideshow with twenty slides with information and examples of four different purposes an author can have for writing a text: to entertain, to persuade, to express, or to inform/explain.

A slide show with nine slides explaining the author's purpose to persuade, inform, or entertain.

This lesson engages students in reading and research related to the Victorian Era. Students will analyze this time period's influence on the writings of Charles Dickens. Then students will analyze how today's authors incorporate social...

Reading comprehension terms (nonfiction) are included on this test. This test assesses the following words: topic, main idea, supporting details, summarizing, conclusion, point of view, author's perspective, author's purpose, details,...

Reading strategy terms (nonfiction) are included in this review exercise. Flashcards are provided for the following words: topic, main idea, supporting details, summarizing, conclusion, point of view, author's perspective, author's...

This slideshow focuses on text structures for informational texts including how the author's purpose helps determine the organizational pattern to use and how the reader can use clues to identify the text structure used. Five...

A lesson plan in which young scholars read short texts and sort them according to the author's purpose: to persuade, to inform, or to entertain. Materials are included. [PDF]

As part of a review and close reading section of BBC Bitesize, this site presents an overview of various purposes of reading, including a five-bullet point explanation of reading purposes. Click the Next button for more information.

Two excerpts from Early American author Washingtom Irving about his preference for writing short works and why.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read an advertisement and some background information and answer questions about comprehension, persuasive techniques, vocabulary, author's purpose, and more. Links to a paired text and paired...

A module where students analyze how the author uses text structure to emphasize key points or explanations in order to achieve the purpose for writing or point of view.

This instructional activity focuses on prewriting including the purpose and characteristics of prewriting, prewriting strategies, the rhetorical context, and developing a working thesis statement. It also includes a slide show about...

Workshop 2 demonstrates how teachers use authentic sources and topics to prompt students to write about things that matter to them, subjects that relate to their lives, relationships, and communities. The topic may be the students -...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will analyze tourism brochures to determine features related to nonfiction writing in this unit. Tourism websites may be used in lieu of the brochures. Cotswold and the North Leigh Roman Villa...

First graders write many times a day to express their interests - they are writing with a purpose through stories, letters, and lists. In this section, you'll find writing assessment resources, writing strategies, and additional tip...

The primary purpose of this site is to present the text of the "Rubayyat of Omar Khayyam." In addition the site's author provides a description of Omar Khayyam's achievements in literature and mathematics. Site contains reference to...