Aligns with CCSSR6—Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text;
and CCSSR5—Analyze author's choices.

Nonfiction

Nonfiction Analyzer--The Writers Techniques

 

How do you read nonfiction? Central Idea

 

How does the writer support the central idea?

Nonfiction Analyzer: The Writer's Techniques

Nonfiction Lesson Plan Example with BIG Ideas and BIG Questions

 

How do you read nonfiction?

 

Nonfiction Analyzer--The Writers Techniques

 

Fiction

PARCC Sequence/NWEA Skills Integration 

A comprehensive guide to interpret the writer's techniques after you have analyzed the story.  Pages 1-2 guide reading the story; page 3 guides analyzes the writer's choices that helped you understand it.

 

Analyze Author's Techniques in a Story

 

Analyze Artist's Technique~SPANISH

I Can Analyze the Author’s Techniques

How does the author interest you in reading the story?

 

Analyze What a Picture Adds to a Story

I Can Infer the Author’s Purpose

Show Inferential Thinking

 

Use the Elements of Fiction to Plan or Interpret a Story.pdf

I Can Analyze an Author’s Purpose—one page postable questions

I Can Analyze an Author’s Techniques—one page postable questions

Learn about Fables

 

 

Analyze Poetic Techniques

 

Poem Lesson Plan Example

 

Poem Reader

 

Analyze then Create a Persuasive Song

 

POEM: This Little Light of Mine

 

Poets use words and images to communicate about a theme.

 

Poem Analyzer-Writer's Techniques

 

Expanded Poem Analyzer

 

Analyze Author's Techniques: His Eye is on the Sparrow

You can apply the same questions to any spiritual.

 

In Summer  Analyze a Paul Laurence Dunbar poem.

 

Analyze Author's Techniques: He Had His Dream

 

Analyze Author's Techniques: We Shall Overcome  You can apply the same questions to any Civil Rights anthem.

 

8th grade students at Gray School illustrate the role of the narrator.

Analyze the artist's choices.

Students can develop the ability to interpret a story or poem by applying the same kinds of interpretation to a painting.  This approach has the advantage that the students can see the artwork all at the same time.

Music/Art/Poem/Story Mood Analyzer

Analyze an Artist's Technique 

 

Mood-Reader Artists use techniques to give their paintings a mood ...

 

Analyze an Inspiring Speech

 

Politics and Persuasive Speaking

 

Roosevelt-First Inaugural Address

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