Table of Contents
Content Home- Welcome
Module Overview- Pre-Assessment
- Unit 1: Career and College Readiness in the Technical Subjects
- Unit 2: Content Literacy in the Technical Subjects, K-5
- Unit 3: Building Content Literacy in the Technical Subjects, 6–12 Reading
- 3.1 College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Reading
- 3.2 Reading Standard 1: Evidence, Inferences, and Conclusions
- 3.3 Reading Standard 2: Central Ideas and Summarizing
- 3.4 Reading Standard 3: Multistep Procedures
- 3.5 CCR Anchor Standards, Reading 4, 5, & 6
- 3.5.1 Discipline-Specific Vocabulary
- 3.5.2 Analyzing the Author's Purpose
- 3.5.3 Lesson Ideas in Technical Subjects for Standards 4, 5, and 6
- 3.5.4 Action Plan for Standards 4, 5, and 6
- 3.6 Reading Standards 7, 8, and 9: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
- 3.7 Reading Standard 10: Text Complexity
- 3.8 Unit Summary
- Unit 4: Building Content Literacy in the Technical Subjects, 6–12 Writing
- 4.1 College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Writing
- 4.2 Writing in the Technical Subjects in the 21st Century
- 4.3 Writing Standard 1: Arguments to Support Claims
- 4.4 Different Types and Purposes of Writing
- 4.5 Writing Standard 2: Informative/Explanatory Text
- 4.6 Writing Standards 4, 5, and 6: Production and Distribution of Writing
- 4.7 Writing Standards 7, 8, and 9: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
- 4.8 Writing Standard 10: Range of Writing
- 4.9 Unit Summary: Review
- Module Summary
Post Assessment
Certificate of Completion
Resources- Module Evaluation
3.5.2 Analyzing the Author's Purpose
Read through the following two resources on analyzing the author's purpose for meeting Reading Standard 6.
The Critical Thinking Community article How to Study and Learn provides a explanations and templates that explain how to evaluate an author’s reasoning. There are other topics on this page also, including How to Analyze the Logic of an Article, Essay, or Chapter, and The Logic of a Textbook.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has lessons available online through “LearnNC” such as the one titled, “Determining the Author's Purpose: Analyzing a Recruitment Video”. Notice how by analyzing a video, students are also addressing CCR Anchor Standard 7, as shown below:
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CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.7 Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words. |
Content Literacy for Technical Subjects. Brought to you by the California Department of Education and the California Arts Project at California State University, San Bernardino.
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