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This useful TabStart page supplies English and language arts teachers with a number of outstanding worksheets and ideas for creating lesson plans about authors' intentions in their work. There are online tests for middle school students to explore here, and there is even a fun song that deals with authors' purposes in their writing.
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Author's Purpose Worksheets - Teach-Nology.com provides several diverse worksheets to help students assess why an author has written on a certain topic. There are also worksheets on famous authors like Mark Twain and Virginia Woolf.
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Authors' Purpose and Point of View Worksheets - From the Sam Houston State University website comes this online worksheet that helps students consider authors' points of view and purposes. The worksheet offers simple questions in multiple choice format.
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Authors' Purpose Middle School Worksheets - These worksheets from the University of Houston website ask students to read short samples of stories, and then they ask student to determine what the authors' purpose is. Students are not required to read additional literature outside of the worksheets to complete them. These worksheets are suitable for middle school students.
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Purpose of the Author Worksheets for Middle School - Teach-nology offers a series of adjective worksheets for different difficulty levels. They each ask student to determine the author's intent within a story.
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Author's Purpose Practice Exercises - Education.com offers these exercises to increase students' knowledge and understanding regarding the author's point and perspective in various literature. Main points as well as subtle points are focused on here.
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The Author's Purpose Song - The lyrics are provided free to a song that helps students to learn about determining point of view. The audio is available as well at this page from HaveFunTeaching.com.
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Nonfiction Lesson Plan for Middle School - This lesson plan details how to discern an author's point within non-fiction works. The plan includes discussion ideas and activities.
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Author's Purpose Lesson Plan - Here you can find a lesson plan from the Missouri Department of Elemenatry and Secondary Education that focuses on an author's purpose to inform, to describe, to entertain, and to persuade. This plan includes discussion topics and various activities.