Young scholars will focus on Main Idea, Author's Purpose, Identifying supporting details and Organizing details. Students will read a variety of Informational Text (non-fiction) to understand how stated and implied main idea effect the understanding of a passage. Young scholars will also analyze mood and tone and how an author's purpose effects the reading of a text. Students will also work on a variety of activities to strengthen their understanding of main idea, author's purpose and point of view.

Concepts

author's purpose, supporting details

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Additional Tags

mood and tone, betterlesson, betterlesson: unit: the author's point is, informational text, main idea

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
• The intended use for this resource is Instructional

Common Core

RI.7.6 RL.6.2 RI.8.6 RL.7.6 RI.6.6 RI.8.2 RST.6-8.6 RL.8.2 RL.6.6 RH.6-8.6 RI.7.9