Assess a speaker’s organizational choices to determine point of view, purpose, and effectiveness.
Arizona Academic Standards:
6.RI.6
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.RI.6.6
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE6RI6
Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.
Tennessee Academic Standards:
6.RI.CS.6
Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in a text.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
6.9*
Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about the author's purpose in cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding. Students are expected to compare and contrast the stated or implied purposes of different authors writing on the same topic.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
FIGURE 19.A*
establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.2.6.D
Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
E06.B-C.2.1.1
Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.
6th Grade Reading - Author's Point of View and Purpose Lesson
Point of View
An author’s point of view is the author’s opinion, belief, thoughts, and feelings on a topic or a subject.
Understanding the author’s views helps the reader know more about the topic of a passage and how different people may think about the topic. An author’s viewpoint on a topic maybe similar to or different from the reader’s.
To find out more about the author’s point of view, look for:
the author’s feelings, thoughts, or opinions
the action that the author calls for
the arguments the author makes
Author’s Purpose
Authors often write with an aim or a purpose. What the author hopes to achieve with the passage is known as the author’s purpose.
These are common types of author’s purposes:
Instruct—A passage written to instruct often has steps and directions.
Entertain—A passage written to entertain often uses humor and narration.
Inform—A passage written to inform is full of facts and information.
Convince—A passage written to convince tries to make the reader believe, think, feel, or do something.
Describe—A passage written to describe usually gives many details a topic.