RLA Lessons

Lesson Purpose

Students will explain how an author’ word choice reveals his/her purpose. This skill is important for the GED Extended Response. Students must be able to determine the author’s purpose and analyze his/her word choice in order to evaluate different texts. This will help students consider word choice and audience in their own writings.

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Lesson Objectives

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to explain how an author’s word choice reveals his/her purpose. The instructor will model how word choice reveals the author’s purpose by analyzing a video, students will work with a partner to determine how word choice reveal’s an author’s purpose in a given text, and, finally, students will work independently to do the same.

Student Target

I can explain how an author’s word choice reveals his/her purpose.

CCR Standards

Reading

• Reading Anchor 1

  Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. (Apply this standard to texts of appropriate complexity as outlined by Standard 10.)

• Reading Anchor 6

  Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text. (Apply this standard to texts of appropriate complexity as outlined by Standard 10.)

Lead CCR Level Specific Standards

Reading Anchor 6: Level D

• RH.6-8.6

  Identify aspects of a text that reveal an author’s point of view or purpose (e.g., loaded language, inclusion or avoidance of particular facts).

Reading Anchor 1: Level D

• RI/RL.7.1

  Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. 

Supporting CCR Level Specific Standards

KYAE Employability Standards