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Better Lesson: Finding the Author's Purpose

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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 article about autism to read and annotate.

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CCSS: Adaptable
Concepts
author's purpose, autism
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Additional Tags
better lesson: finding the author's purpose, betterlesson, betterlesson: finding the author's purpose, oh.ela-literacy.ri.2.6 identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe., supporting facts
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional
Common Core
RI.2.6 W.1.1