Analyzing Author's Purpose
To understand a speaker/writer's purpose, a reader must go beyond the text and learn something about the author. Once students learn about the author, they can read for the central message/claim and the intended audience. With this information, they can explain a purpose beyond to inform, to persuade, to entertain. Analyzing Author's Purpose provides focus questions that will teach students how to understand an author's purpose and point of view.
Analyzing Author's Purpose Step-By-Step Process
Plan your lesson
Pathway
Teach the skill
Differentiate and support learning
Assess and track growth
Literacy Standards In Action
We've mapped our literacy lessons and reading, speaking, and writing skills to state standards, Common Core, and NGSS. The standards are "the what" to teach. Our lessons are "the how" to meet the expectations defined by the standards. Click on the links below to view our quick reference table that maps standards to literacy lessons.
