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Identify the Author's Purpose
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Identify the Author's Purpose
Fourth Grade
Reading
Authors persuade, inform, and entertain through various types of writing! Students set out to identify the author’s purpose.
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Identify the Author's Purpose
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Identify the Author's Purpose
Authors persuade, inform, and entertain through various types of writing! Students set out to identify the author’s purpose.
Fourth Grade
Reading
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Detecting the Author's Purpose
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Detecting the Author's Purpose
Fourth Grade
Reading
Learners will categorize 12 different types of text according to why the author would write them, using the acronym PIE as a mnemonic device.
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Detecting the Author's Purpose
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Detecting the Author's Purpose
Learners will categorize 12 different types of text according to why the author would write them, using the acronym PIE as a mnemonic device.
Fourth Grade
Reading
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Basketball: Nonfiction Text
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Basketball: Nonfiction Text
Fifth Grade
Reading
This sample nonfiction text about basketball helps students to explore author's point of view.
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Basketball: Nonfiction Text
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Basketball: Nonfiction Text
This sample nonfiction text about basketball helps students to explore author's point of view.
Fifth Grade
Reading
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Graphic Organizer: Author’s Point of View
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Graphic Organizer: Author’s Point of View
Fourth Grade
Reading
This graphic organizer helps students work through a nonfiction text to help organize information about the author’s point, and the reasons and evidence used to support it.
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Graphic Organizer: Author’s Point of View
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Graphic Organizer: Author’s Point of View
This graphic organizer helps students work through a nonfiction text to help organize information about the author’s point, and the reasons and evidence used to support it.
Fourth Grade
Reading
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Should I Recycle This?: Nonfiction Text
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Should I Recycle This?: Nonfiction Text
Fifth Grade
Reading
This informational text about a topic relevant to students can be used to help explain author’s claims and the reasons used to support them.
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Should I Recycle This?: Nonfiction Text
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Should I Recycle This?: Nonfiction Text
This informational text about a topic relevant to students can be used to help explain author’s claims and the reasons used to support them.
Fifth Grade
Reading
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The Reality of Zoos: Nonfiction Text
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The Reality of Zoos: Nonfiction Text
Fifth Grade
Reading
This worksheet gives your students practice reading and analyzing informational text to explain the author’s claim and supporting reasons.
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The Reality of Zoos: Nonfiction Text
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The Reality of Zoos: Nonfiction Text
This worksheet gives your students practice reading and analyzing informational text to explain the author’s claim and supporting reasons.
Fifth Grade
Reading
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Soccer: Nonfiction Text
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Soccer: Nonfiction Text
Fifth Grade
Reading
This nonfiction text about soccer will help students to practice finding evidence to support the author's point.
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Soccer: Nonfiction Text
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Soccer: Nonfiction Text
This nonfiction text about soccer will help students to practice finding evidence to support the author's point.
Fifth Grade
Reading
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Video Games: Nonfiction Text
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Video Games: Nonfiction Text
Fifth Grade
Reading
Use this worksheet to provide an engaging text for your students as they practice reading and analyzing an author’s claims.
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Video Games: Nonfiction Text
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Video Games: Nonfiction Text
Use this worksheet to provide an engaging text for your students as they practice reading and analyzing an author’s claims.
Fifth Grade
Reading
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Historical Heroes: Eleanor Roosevelt
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Historical Heroes: Eleanor Roosevelt
Fourth Grade
Reading
Learn about Eleanor Roosevelt, the groundbreaking first lady known for her humanitarian work and for being the first U.S.delegate to the United Nations in 1942.
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Historical Heroes: Eleanor Roosevelt
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Historical Heroes: Eleanor Roosevelt
Learn about Eleanor Roosevelt, the groundbreaking first lady known for her humanitarian work and for being the first U.S.delegate to the United Nations in 1942.
Fourth Grade
Reading
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Point of View Graphic Organizer
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Point of View Graphic Organizer
Fifth Grade
Reading
This graphic organizer can help students analyze a story, scenario, disagreement or controversy from multiple perspectives.
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Point of View Graphic Organizer
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Point of View Graphic Organizer
This graphic organizer can help students analyze a story, scenario, disagreement or controversy from multiple perspectives.
Fifth Grade
Reading
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Author's Purpose Scavenger Hunt
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Author's Purpose Scavenger Hunt
Fifth Grade
Reading
Challenge your students to find real world examples of the author’s purpose with this text-based scavenger hunt.
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Author's Purpose Scavenger Hunt
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Author's Purpose Scavenger Hunt
Challenge your students to find real world examples of the author’s purpose with this text-based scavenger hunt.
Fifth Grade
Reading
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Glossary: Match Author's Point with Evidence
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Glossary: Match Author's Point with Evidence
Fifth Grade
Reading
Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Match Author's Point with Evidence.
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Glossary: Match Author's Point with Evidence
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Glossary: Match Author's Point with Evidence
Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Match Author's Point with Evidence.
Fifth Grade
Reading
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Tennis: Nonfiction Text
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Tennis: Nonfiction Text
Fifth Grade
Reading
Use this high-interest text about sports to explore what point the author is trying to make.
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Tennis: Nonfiction Text
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Tennis: Nonfiction Text
Use this high-interest text about sports to explore what point the author is trying to make.
Fifth Grade
Reading
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Comprehension Cards
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Comprehension Cards
Fourth Grade
Reading
These printable cards give students the chance to practice using supporting evidence to identify an author’s claims.
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Comprehension Cards
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Comprehension Cards
These printable cards give students the chance to practice using supporting evidence to identify an author’s claims.
Fourth Grade
Reading
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Vocabulary Cards: Match Author's Point with Evidence
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Vocabulary Cards: Match Author's Point with Evidence
Fifth Grade
Reading
Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Match Author's Point with Evidence.
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Vocabulary Cards: Match Author's Point with Evidence
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Vocabulary Cards: Match Author's Point with Evidence
Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Match Author's Point with Evidence.
Fifth Grade
Reading
Worksheet
Whose Side of the Story?
Lesson Plan
Whose Side of the Story?
Fifth Grade
Reading
Allow your students to explore how stories may change depending on the perspectives from which they're told. Interesting texts and a creative writing assignment make this quite the engaging lesson.
Lesson Plan
Whose Side of the Story?
Lesson Plan
Whose Side of the Story?
Allow your students to explore how stories may change depending on the perspectives from which they're told. Interesting texts and a creative writing assignment make this quite the engaging lesson.
Fifth Grade
Reading
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