Analyze digital texts to determine subject, occasion, audience, purpose, tone, and credibility.
Arkansas Academic Standards:
RI.8.6
Determine an author's point of view, perspective, and/or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.
Arizona Academic Standards:
8.RI.6
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.RI.8.6
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE8RI6
Tennessee Academic Standards:
8.RI.CS.6
Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
8.9*
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 analyze works written on the same topic and compare how the authors achieved similar or different purposes.
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.2.8.D
Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
E08.B-C.2.1.1
Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.
8th Grade Reading - Author's Point of View and Purpose Lesson
Author's Point of View
An author’s point of view is the author’s opinions, beliefs, thoughts, and feelings about a topic or subject in the text.
Understanding the author’s point of view helps the reader know more about the topic of a passage and about how the author thinks or feels about it. A reader may agree or disagree with the author’s point of view.
To find the author’s point of view in a passage, look for:
Statements about how the author feels, thinks, or their opinion
An action the author wants the reader to take
An argument, or claim, the author makes about the topic
Author's Purpose
When authors write a text, they have in mind a specific purpose, or what they want to achieve in the text. This is known as the author’s purpose. Authors write texts for many different purposes.
These are common types of author’s purposes:
Instruct: includes steps in a process and directions
Entertain: uses humor, narration, tells a story, etc.
Inform: includes mainly facts and information
Persuade: tries to get the reader to believe, think, feel, or do something