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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Narrator Chart [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Provides an overview of the importance of a narrator in a text and some brief exercises for analysis. Helps students learn more about the role of the narrator in literature, his/her voice, and influence on other characters and events.
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Other

Concepts and Practices for Writing Courses: Interpreting Literature

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This tutorial surveys the way readers should interpret literature or text in symbols, syntax, meaning, and the like. The article features a Literary Toolkit for Analyzing Literature.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Author Study Letter Rubric

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a rubric. Each student will write a letter to an author of choice, and afterword, this rubric may be used to assess each letter.
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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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Activity
E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Character Traits Project

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this learning module, students will learn more about learn more about character traits. Directions and rubrics for a group project are provided to reinforce the understanding of character traits. This module is designed to support...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Indirect Characterizations Worksheet

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this learning module, students will practice analyzing indirect characterizations. A worksheet is provided to reinforce the concept. This module is designed to support Tier I, Tier II, and Tier III students.
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Tone Worksheets and Lessons

For Teachers 4th - 9th Standards
This learning module provides remediation and extra practice with identifying an author's tone. Reinforcement for understanding author's tone is provided through the five different worksheets and a mini-lesson. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.4
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Point of View Activities

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This learning module provides assorted activities for teaching and reviewing the concept of point of view with students. The following activities are provided: point of view comic strip; point of view flash cards; point of view practice...
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PPT
Other

Prezi: Inference Lesson 8th Grade

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Learn what it means to make an inference by combining the author's clues and your background knowledge.
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Lesson Plan: Text Structures in Science Writing

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Lesson for teaching students to identify components of scientific texts and to use similar structures in their own scientific writing.
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TES Global

Tes: Analyzing & Comparing Non Fiction

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Resource notes to aid students as they analyze different types of nonfiction. The GAP (genre, audience, and purpose) acronym is provided to use when comparing nonfiction texts.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: The Ex Factors

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares facts about the importance of physical activity on the body. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies...
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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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Handout
Colorado State University

Writing@csu Guide: Understanding Writing Situations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this guide, you can learn more about the situations in which writers and readers find themselves and the physical, social, cultural, and historical contexts that shape them. Click on each of the links on the right to learn about the...
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Dialoguing With the Author: Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review the reading strategy of questioning the author, also referred to as "dialoguing" with the author. The "dialoguing with author" strategy is explained, and examples of how to use the...
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Handout
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Literature: Exploring Point of View

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use these brief explanations to help you determine the narrator and point of view in any piece of literature. W.11-12.3a Narratives
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That Quiz

That Quiz: Author's Purpose

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
In this 10 question, self-grading quiz, students read a topic and label the author's purpose as to inform, entertain, or persuade. The quiz is timed, but not limited.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Unit: The Author's Point Is

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
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...
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Unit Plan
E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Author's Purpose Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
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...
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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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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Point of View in Literary Texts/fiction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Identify and understand an author's choice of point of view, including limited versus omniscient and subjective versus objective.
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Interactive
Quizlet

Quizlet: Ccisd 4th Grade Main Idea Match

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Reading comprehension terms (nonfiction) are included in this review "Match" game. Questions are provided for the following words: main idea, summarizing, point of view, summarizing, topic, support, conclusion, details, author's purpose,...
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Other

Sas: Exploring Ways Authors Use Text Structures to Convey Meaning

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
In this lesson plan, students will explore ways authors use text structures to convey meaning through cause and effect, sequencing, comparison, and more.
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Learning Farm

Learning Farm: Compare and Contrast Literature

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Students will learn how to compare and contrast passages from different time periods. Analyzing the similarities and differences of in the way authors show a historical time, place, or a character gives the reader a broader understanding...