6th Grade Author's Craft Lessons

Explore various literary techniques including adages, puns, hyperbole, stereotypes, and anecdotes. Develop an understanding of how these techniques enrich texts, enhance skills in identifying and analyzing these elements in literature, and apply this knowledge to reading and writing activities.

Focus on interpreting the author's purpose and craft to effectively analyze textual nuances. Develop critical reading skills, enhance interpretive strategies, and gain insights into authorial techniques for a deeper understanding and analysis of written works.

Learn to analyze and interpret an author's narrative techniques to convey meaning effectively, enhancing comprehension and critical thinking skills in reading.

Focus on examining how biases appear in writing and analyzing the author's perspective. Develop skills to identify biases, understand their consequences, and apply these insights to conduct critical text analysis.

Explore how to identify the intent of a text by discerning whether it aims to persuade, inform, or entertain. Engage with various questions and examples to develop the ability to evaluate the purpose behind different texts, enhancing critical reading skills.

Focuses on analyzing an author's purpose in text, aiding students in identifying and interpreting various intents such as persuasion, explanation, or information. Enhances skills in reading comprehension and critical analysis, enabling learners to discern underlying messages and intentions in written material.

Explore the understanding of an author's purpose and perspective by focusing on persuasion, information, and entertainment. Gain the ability to identify various writing intentions and recognize their impact on the reader's interpretation of texts.

Focuses on identifying and analyzing an author's intent behind varied texts related to the role of the United Nations. Learners enhance their skills in understanding audience targeting and authorial tone, thus improving their critical reading and comprehension abilities.

Explore the various purposes behind authors' writings, focusing on identifying and understanding their intentions. Learners will develop skills to recognize diverse writing purposes, applying this knowledge to enhance reading comprehension and writing abilities.

Explore key concepts including bias and generalization, and learn to differentiate between objective and subjective language in communication. Develop skills in identifying and analyzing bias to enhance critical thinking and media literacy.

Examine the author's purpose in writing by distinguishing between persuasive, informative, and entertaining texts. Develop skills to identify the purpose of various writing styles, enhancing reading comprehension.

Focus is placed on understanding the purposes of writing through the P.I.E.E. framework: Persuade, Inform, Entertain, and Explain. Learners will develop the ability to identify various authorial intents, which enhances their comprehension and analytical skills when engaging with diverse texts.

Study the concept of author's purpose using diverse examples, including texts that inform, entertain, and persuade. Improve reading comprehension skills by identifying and analyzing the intent behind various types of writing.

Explore the various purposes authors have in writing, such as persuading, informing, or entertaining audiences. Gain the ability to identify an author's intent through textual clues and understand how different writing styles serve specific purposes.

Explore the concept of an author's purpose, focusing on identifying an author's intent across various contexts through short stories and scenarios. Enhance reading comprehension skills and develop the ability to infer the purposes behind different texts.

Identify the author's intent by examining various purposes such as informing, persuading, entertaining, and describing. Develop skills in text analysis to determine the author's purpose and enhance reading comprehension abilities.

Analyzing word choice in literature helps examine how it shapes an author's tone and purpose. Learners will gain skills in identifying tone implications and recognizing imagery in text.

Analyze various examples to determine whether the author's primary purpose in a text is to entertain, inform, or persuade. Enhance comprehension skills by identifying the intention behind written content and applying critical analysis across different contexts.

Focus on identifying and understanding the author's purpose across various texts, such as historical, fictional, and argumentative writings. Enhance analytical skills by developing the ability to distinguish between informative, entertaining, and persuasive writing intentions.

Explore the concept of bias to differentiate between facts and opinions and understand the impact of personal biases on decision-making. Gain skills in recognizing bias and its influence on decisions both at the community level and individually.