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Author's Purpose Reading Strategies Practice
By carmen woody
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Read through the slides and then answer the questions that follow. If you would like to open the slides in a separate screen, you can go to this link:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1H7-Con-5SSBVkbnymCRZGscbb23qecZ9W4HJkXK85aI/edit?usp=sharing
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(Slide 2) What is author's purpose?
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(Slide 3)List at least three questions you could see yourself asking yourself to help you identify the author's purpose.
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(Slide 4) What is author's perspective?
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(Slide 5) List at least three questions you could see yourself asking yourself to help you identify the author's perspective.
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(Slide 7) What are three tips for answering author's purpose and perspective?
Read the text on the left. Answer questions on the right.
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What reasons might an author write?
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What are 4 strategies for answering author's purpose?
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What is your connection to the text? In other words, how do you relate to the topic?
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Try to write two questions that you could ask yourself to help you to understand the author's purpose or perspective.
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What is your purpose in reading this?
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What is meant by author's tone?
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Are you familiar with all of these words? List any that you do not currently know the meanings for.
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List at least 3 strategies for switiching an autor's purpose/point of view that you think would be useful in identifying author's purpose.
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What is the bias in this article?
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Can the source of information be trusted? How do you know?
*Hint: Look a the source, consider the location and whether or not there are any amusement parks there.
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Is this a factual article or opinion-based? How do you know?
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What reading strategy will you use?
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