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Worksheet
Curated OER

Initial Consonant Clusters 3

For Students 11th - 12th
In this ESL activity, students analyze word and picture cards. The activity focuses on using consonant blends tr, pr, dr, and gr at the onset of words. Students also practice reading words that contain "ee" and "ry."
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Emperor and the Kite

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore storytelling by reading a classic story. In this vocabulary identification lesson, 4th graders read the story The Emperor and the Kite and define the different vocabulary terms that appear in the story. Students...
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Lesson Plan
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 learners 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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Lesson Plan
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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Unit Plan
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...
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Study Guide
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Author's Purpose

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Site provides extensive assistance in preparing 4th grade students for Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. This section focuses on identifying the author's purpose.
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Unit Plan
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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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Finding the Author's Purpose

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
What is autism? How does it affect behavior? Students will find evidence of the author's tone or purpose for writing the article, as well as hints that show evidence of opinion. Includes a video clip from the movie "Rainman", and an...
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Lesson Plan
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 students to identify author's purpose including to entertain, to inform, and to persuade. Lessons are based on the books The Adventures of Taxi Dog by...
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Author's Purpose 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson plan unit on author's purpose. In the first lesson plan, students practice identifying the author's purpose as to entertain, to persuade, or to inform. In the second lesson plan, students...
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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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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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Website
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Identify Author's Purpose

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Learn about author's purpose and how to identify it with a list of guiding questions.
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PPT
Tom Richey

Slide Share: Author's Purpose and Point of View

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This downloadable slideshow focuses on how an author's purpose and point of view work together in fiction and nonfiction, and how to identify the point of view.
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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...
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Sam Houston State University

Sam Houston State University: Author's Purpose and Point of View: Pretest

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Answer multiple-choice questions about the author's point of view and identifying the author's purpose within a short text in this ten question pretest.
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Other

Sam Houston State University: Author's Purpose and Point of View: Post Test

For Students 7th Standards
Identify the author's purpose in this ten-question multiple choice test.
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Study Guide
University of South Florida

University of South Florida: Fcat Express: Author's Purpose Activity

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Practice identifying author's purpose by recognizing the purpose in titles, understanding the difference between fact and opinion, and identifying the purpose of various forms of writing.
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Author's Purpose Test

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
An multiple-choice quiz on identifying an author's purpose.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Author's Purpose

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
An eleven-part learning module with links to images and videos to use while learning to identify an author's purpose.
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Unit Plan
Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Identify Author's Point of View

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
Learn the techniques an author uses to share his or her point of view on a subject then practice identifying an author's purpose on your own.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Texts With Similar/different Purposes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson is about 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...
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Unknown Type
Sam Houston State University

Sam Houston State University: Author's Purpose and Point of View: Posttest

For Students 6th Standards
A ten-question multiple choice test over author's purpose and character point of view.