6th Grade Reading focuses on developing critical reading skills, comprehension strategies, and a love for literature through diverse texts.
Authors write for different reasons: to inform, entertain, persuade, or explain. Understanding the author's purpose helps you understand the text better.
The author's point of view is their opinion or perspective on the topic. Clues about point of view can be found in word choice and the information included or left out.
Knowing the purpose and point of view helps you think critically about what you read.
A commercial that uses lots of positive words is trying to persuade you to buy something.
A news article that presents only one side of a story shows the author’s point of view.
Understand why an author wrote a text and what they think about the topic.