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Why Do Authors Write?

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Sixth graders use short reading passages to identify, explain, and discuss the author's purpose for writing. After a lecture/demo, they utilize a graphic organizer embedded in this plan to organize their writing ideas.

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author's purpose, authors, main ideas, central ideas, key details, details

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authors, author's purpose, key details, main idea, english language arts

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