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Test by Theodore L. Thomas Author's Purpose Questions and Activites

By Karen Rohach - Author's Purpose Expert

This product contains questions which explore the literary elements used in the story and ask students to determine for what purpose they were used. The higher-level thinking questions help students to determine the message/theme of the story. It

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Short Stories

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Worksheets, GATE, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RL.9-10.4, RL.9-10.10, L.9-10.3, L.9-10.5, CCRA.R.4, CCRA.R.6, CCRA.R.9, CCRA.L.3, CCRA.L.5

$3.00

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Death by Scrabble by Charlie Fish Author's Purpose and Short Answer Questions

By Karen Rohach - Author's Purpose Expert

This product contains questions require students to identify and examine the strategies the author uses to convey his purpose. They are higher-level rather than content based questions. It also includes a short constructed response question

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Short Stories

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th

Types:

GATE

CCSS:

RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.4, L.9-10.3, L.9-10.4a, L.9-10.5, CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.3, CCRA.R.4, CCRA.L.3...

$2.50

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Halloween Collection of Stories and Poems with Author's Craft/Purpose Questions

By Karen Rohach - Author's Purpose Expert

This collection includes the the poems "Annabel Lee" and "Beware: Do Not Read This Poem" and the short stories "Ruthless" and "Death by Scrabble." The poems and stories all have higher-level rather than content based questions, and there is a

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Close Reading

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th

Types:

GATE, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.3, RL.9-10.4, RL.9-10.5, L.9-10.3, L.9-10.4a, L.9-10.5, L.9-10.5a, CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2...

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The Man in the Well by Ira Sher Author's Purpose Questions and Activities

By Karen Rohach - Author's Purpose Expert

This product contains higher-level thinking activities which require students to identify strategies used by the author to convey his purpose. The questions have students make inferences in the selection, the vocabulary chart has students define

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Reading Strategies

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Activities, GATE, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.3, RL.9-10.4, L.9-10.4a, CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.3, CCRA.R.4, CCRA.R.6, CCRA.L.3...

$3.50

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The Eyes Have It by Philip K. Dick Author's Craft/Purpose Questions

By Karen Rohach - Author's Purpose Expert

These questions focus on the strategies that the author used to create the humor. The focus is on verbal irony, so it includes the definition and examples of verbal irony. This lesson requires higher-level thinking skills.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Close Reading

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th

Types:

GATE

CCSS:

RL.9-10.1, L.9-10.3, L.9-10.5, L.9-10.5a, CCRA.R.1, CCRA.L.3, CCRA.L.5

$2.00

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STAAR ELA Retester Blitz 3 Week Plan

By Karen Rohach - Author's Purpose Expert

This plan includes lessons for the three weeks before the STAAR Retest. The product includes revising and editing practice for every day and a thematic unit on media bias for the first week. The second week persuasive essay is tied to the unit.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Short Stories, Poetry

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.3, RL.9-10.4, RL.9-10.5, RI.9-10.1, RI.9-10.2, RI.9-10.3, RI.9-10.4, RI.9-10.5, RI.9-10.6...

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Abandoned Farmhouse Author's Craft/Purpose Questions and Imagery Chart

By Karen Rohach - Author's Purpose Expert

This product contains questions which ask students to identiify and examine the strategies used by the poet in order to determine his message. These are higher-level thinking rather than content based questions. The chart requires students to find

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Poetry

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

GATE, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RL.9-10.4, L.9-10.3, L.9-10.4a, L.9-10.5a, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.4, CCRA.R.5, CCRA.R.6, CCRA.L.3, CCRA.L.5

$2.50

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The Storm by McKnight Malmar Author's Purpose Unit

By Karen Rohach - Author's Purpose Expert

The unit contains various activities which require students to analyze the story, identify literary devices and determine why the author used them. It comes with a suggested lesson plan for the order of activities. The vocabulary chart uses context

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Short Stories

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

GATE, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.3, RL.9-10.4, L.9-10.4a, L.9-10.4d, L.9-10.5, L.9-10.5a, CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.3...

$4.50

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They're Made Out of Meat Author's Purpose Questions and Activities

By Karen Rohach - Author's Purpose Expert

This product contains higher-level thinking questions which require students to identify the strategies used by the author and the purpose for each. It also has a vocabulary chart in which students are given a word in context and asked to identify

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Short Stories, Reading Strategies

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

GATE, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.4, L.9-10.3, L.9-10.4a, L.9-10.5, CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.6, CCRA.L.3, CCRA.L.4...

$2.50

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Examination Day by Henry Slesar Author's Purpose Questions and Activities

By Karen Rohach - Author's Purpose Expert

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Short Stories

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

GATE, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RL.K.4, RL.K.10, L.K.5, CCRA.R.4, CCRA.R.6, CCRA.R.9, CCRA.L.3, CCRA.L.5

$4.00

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Hey, You Down There by Harold Rolseth Author's Purpose Questions and Activities

By Karen Rohach - Author's Purpose Expert

This product contains higher-level thinking questions which require students to identify the strategies the author uses to convey his purpose. A vocabulary chart is included which expects students to define the meaning of words based on context

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Short Stories, Reading Strategies

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

GATE, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, L.9-10.3, L.9-10.4a, L.9-10.4d, L.9-10.5, CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.3, CCRA.R.6, CCRA.L.3, CCRA.L.4...

$3.00

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Skin by Roald Dahl Author's Craft/Purpose Questions

By Karen Rohach - Author's Purpose Expert

This product contains higher-level thinking questions which require students to identify and analyze the strategies used by the author to convey his message. It also includes a chart that asks students to discuss the flashback in the story. Answers

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Close Reading

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th

Types:

GATE

CCSS:

RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.3, RL.9-10.4, L.9-10.3, L.9-10.4a, L.9-10.5, CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.3, CCRA.R.4...

$2.50

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The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Author's Craft/Purpose Questions

By Karen Rohach - Author's Purpose Expert

This song describes the tragic loss of twenty-nine men when the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior. The product contains higher-level thinking questions which require students to identify the rhyme scheme, literary devices, and various

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Vocal Music, Reading Strategies

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

GATE, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.4, L.9-10.3, L.9-10.4a, L.9-10.5, L.9-10.5a, CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.4, CCRA.R.5...

$2.00

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The Wish by Roald Dahl Author's Purpose Questions and Activities

By Karen Rohach - Author's Purpose Expert

This product contains higher-level thinking questions which require students to determine what the author was trying to convey and what strategies he used to convey it. It also has charts which expect students to identify literary devices and the

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Short Stories

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

GATE, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.4, RL.9-10.5, RL.9-10.6, L.9-10.3, L.9-10.4, L.9-10.5, CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.4...

$3.50

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Bread by Margaret Atwood Imagery Identification Chart, Summary and Short Answer

By Karen Rohach - Author's Purpose Expert

This activity requires students to summarize the paragraphs in the piece and to identify examples of imagery within the text to determine why the author used them. A short constructed response questions asks students to discuss the author's message

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th

Types:

GATE, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RL.9-10.2, L.9-10.3, CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.L.3

$3.00

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Ballad of Birmingham and Birmingham Historical Article Cross-Genre Questions

By Karen Rohach - Author's Purpose Expert

The poem and article are about the Birmingham church bombing in 1963 in which four girls were killed. This activity includes a graphic organizer for the poem, separate author's craft/purpose questions for the poem and article, and cross-genre

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Poetry, Informational Text

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

GATE, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.4, RI.9-10.1, RI.9-10.2, RI.9-10.3, RI.9-10.4, RI.9-10.5, RI.9-10.6, CCRA.R.5, CCRA.R.7...

$3.50

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The Wife's Story by Ursula K. Leguin Author's Purpose Questions and Activities

By Karen Rohach - Author's Purpose Expert

This story with a surprise ending comes with higher-level thinking questions which require students to identify the strategies used by the author to convey her purpose. There is an inference chart which asks students to provide examples from the

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Short Stories, Close Reading

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

GATE, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.4, L.9-10.3, L.9-10.5, CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.3, CCRA.R.6, CCRA.L.3, CCRA.L.5

$3.00

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Beware: Do Not Read This Poem by Ismael Reed Author's Craft/Purpose Questions

By Karen Rohach - Author's Purpose Expert

These questions require students to identify and examine the strategies the author uses to convey his purpose. They are higher-level thinking rather than content based questions. I have also included teacher notes for class discussion.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Poetry

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th

Types:

GATE

CCSS:

RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, L.9-10.3, L.9-10.4a, L.9-10.4d, L.9-10.5, L.9-10.5a, CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.4, CCRA.R.5...

$2.00

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Poems for Teenagers: A Collection of Poems about Life

By Karen Rohach - Author's Purpose Expert

This collection contains poems that are interesting to teenagers. Each poem has higher-level thinking activities which require students to identify literary devices and the author's purpose for using them. These activities include TPCASTT Anlysis

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Poetry, Close Reading

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

GATE, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, L.9-10.3, L.9-10.4a, L.9-10.4b, L.9-10.5, L.9-10.5a, CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.5, CCRA.L.4...

$8.50

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Lather and Nothing Else by Hernando Tellez Author's Purpose 7-Day Unit

By Karen Rohach - Author's Purpose Expert

This product is a 7-Day Unit which contains higher-level thinking questions requiring students to identify strategies the author uses to convey his message. It includes a unit plan with a vocabulary identification chart, imagery identification

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Short Stories

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

GATE, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.3, RL.9-10.4, L.9-10.3, L.9-10.4a, L.9-10.4d, L.9-10.5, CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.3...

$4.50

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I have taught grade levels 7 - 12 throughout my 28 years, including AP Language and Composition. I retired two years ago and decided to share my resources to help others. My years teaching AP taught me how to create questions and activities to help kids identify the strategies an author uses to be able to identify the purpose. I have used these strategies with AP, regular, and retester students. My recent experience as an Educational Consultant has helped me realize how I can best support teachers.

MY TEACHING STYLE

My favorite mantra is rigor, relevance, and relationship. I believe in giving higher level questions to kids of all levels. You can push them and guide them at the same time.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

Campus Teacher of the Year

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

M.Ed. Educational Management

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

I have extensive experience with identifying the author's craft/purpose. Most of my materials require higher-level thinking. They are challenging but not too difficult for all levels of kids.