Students will read an article and determine the author's point and identify the reasons the author gives to support his or her point. This lesson plan requires analysis by the students and a great deal of higher-order thinking as they evaluate the author's point and reasons. Includes guided practice work, a printable graphic organizer, and videos of the lesson plan in action.

Concepts

author's purpose

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Additional Tags

betterlesson, betterlesson: work out together, oh.ela-literacy.ri.1.8 identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text., 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.K.8 RI.1.8 RI.2.6 RL.K.6 RI.K.7 RI.K.6 SL.K.4 RI.2.8 RI.K.5