Common Core Standards
Grade 6
Reading RI.6.6
Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.
Why did the author write something, and how did the author write about this something in his or her text? Make sure students can answer this question and back it up using quotes and other examples, and they should be fine.
Aligned Resources
- Teaching Maniac Magee: City Divided
- Teaching Maniac Magee: Exploring Homelessness
- Teaching Farewell to Manzanar: Every Picture Tells a Story
- Teaching The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963: Let's Do the Time Warp
- Teaching Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Integration In Our Nation
- Teaching A Wrinkle in Time: Right Brain Versus Left Brain
- How To Evaluate a Website: Fact or Fiction: How to Decide What Sites Keep It Real
- Teaching Farewell to Manzanar: Do You See What I See?
- Teaching The View from Saturday: Getting To Know a Turtle (Almost)
- Using and Citing Online Sources: Chicken or the Egg: Primary and Secondary Sources
- How To Evaluate a Website: Fact or Opinion: How to a Judge Website's Biases
- Teaching Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH: The Great Lab Rat Debate
- Teaching A Wrinkle in Time: The Quotable Mrs. Who