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Colorado State Writing Center: Understanding Your Purpose HandoutColorado State Writing Center: Understanding Your Purpose Handout
Publisher
Colorado State University
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Grade
9th - 10th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Lexile Measures
980L
Handout

Colorado State Writing Center: Understanding Your Purpose

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Use the links on the right to get a better understanding of purpose in writing including the types of purposes and how audience affects purpose. Click on Purpose and Audience and Purpose and Strategies. W.9-10.4 Write/Audience/Purpose; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.5 Develop and strengthen writing

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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

WHST.9-10.4 W.8.4 W.9-10.4 WHST.6-8.5 WHST.11-12.4 CCRA.W.4 WHST.6-8.10 WHST.6-8.2.a WHST.11-12.10

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