Teaching Resources :: 265

Read Works

Read Works: Stay Candle Safe

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about safety tips to follow when burning candles. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in author's purpose.

Get Free Access See Review

Read Works

Read Works: Splash Into Summer

For Teachers 2nd Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about safety tips for the summer. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in author's purpose.

Get Free Access See Review

Read Works

Read Works: Give Thanks

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about Thanksgiving traditions in a Native American family. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in author's purpose.

Get Free Access See Review

Read Works

Read Works: A Day to Celebrate Earth

For Teachers 2nd Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about Earth Day and ways students can help the Earth. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in author's purpose.

Get Free Access See Review

BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Types of Texts Fact Sheets

For Students 5th - 8th Standards

Six printable fact sheets on how to understand and recognize different types of text including descriptive, informative, instructive, and persuasive.

Get Free Access See Review

Scholastic

Scholastic: Test Skill Builders for Reading: Making Judgments [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards

Standardized test practice for students in grades 5 and 6. Students read a practice passage and answer questions that require them to make judgments about such things as fact or opinion and the author's purpose. Answers to the practice...

Get Free Access See Review

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.

Get Free Access See Review

E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Author's Purpose Worksheets

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

Several worksheets and assessments are provided on this module. Students will have numerous exposures to the topic of "author's purpose" in each practice exercise and assessment.

Get Free Access See Review

Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: What's the Purpose? [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards

A lesson plan in which students read short texts and sort them according to purpose: persuade, inform, entertain, and explain. Materials are included. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.6

Get Free Access See Review

Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Persuade, Inform, Entertain Sort

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards

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

Get Free Access See Review

Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Instructional Routines

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

This site offers PDF grade-specific lesson plans for teaching various reading skills for grades K-3. These include phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

Get Free Access See Review

Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Questions to Guide Instruction

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

This site offers questions to guide all facets of reading instruction broken down by grade level, grades K-3.

Get Free Access See Review

Virginia Tech

The Alan Review: An Interview With Ruth White

For Students 5th - 8th

This is an interview with Ruth White, author of Belle Prater's Boy, conducted by Pam B. Cole of the ALAN Review.

Get Free Access See Review

Read Works

Readworks: Reading Lesson 3: To Persuade

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

This instructional activity focuses on identifying text evidence that shows that the author's purpose is to persuade. Draw a conclusion about what the author is trying to persuade the reader to do or think. Text, worksheet, and chart are...

Get Free Access See Review

Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: From Here to Narnia

For Teachers 9th - 10th

This lesson will provide eighth grade Language Arts students with an inquiry-based research project based on C. S. Lewis' classic, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The student will determine the author's purpose in writing this...

Get Free Access See Review

South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Author's Purpose Pie

For Teachers 3rd Standards

Third graders will determine the authors purpose in creating a story.

Get Free Access See Review

Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Purpose of Reference Quick Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

Purpose of reference questions ask you to identify why the author referred to something in a certain part of the text. In other words, what was the point of including the reference?

Get Free Access See Review

Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Primary Purpose Quick Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

Primary purpose questions ask us to identify why the author may have written the passage. As you read through the passage the first time, it's a good idea to always be asking yourself: "So what?" "What's the point?"

Get Free Access See Review

Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: The Author Study Toolkit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st

Explains the benefits of doing an author study and how to do one with a class. Includes lists of resources and ideas for culminating projects.

Get Free Access See Review

Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts, Grade 10: Rhetoric

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

Students engage with texts that have persuasive power and examine how argument is created. The variety of texts allows students to evaluate the impact of occasion and audience upon the use of rhetorical appeals in a variety of media....

Get Free Access See Review

Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 6: Steve Jobs

For Teachers 6th Standards

Sixth graders will explore the role of failure in finding success. In this set, 6th graders learn that success takes hard work, deliberate practice, and the ability to learn from failures and persevere. Students explore how an author's...

Get Free Access See Review