Develop and use pre-reading strategies (e.g., identify a purpose for reading {for information, for enjoyment, for understanding a writer's position}, make predictions using text features {illustrations, graphics}, preview text using illustrations, graphics, text format, text structures, and skimming). 0301.8.1

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1. Author's purpose - online lesson with practice
2. Author's purpose - lesson and practice quiz
3. Author's Purpose Battleship - answer questions to sink the battleship [Quia quiz]
4. Author's point of view - online lesson with practice
5. Author's Purpose Interactive Practice Sites - a collection of resources at Internet4Classrooms
6. Author's Purpose and Point of View - [22 slides] explanation and review
7. Author's Purpose Worksheets and PowerPoint Shows
8. Cartoon Fill-ins - Create your own cartoon by filling in the form
9. Identify Author's Purpose - [designed for grade 2] interactive lesson
10. Jenny Loves Yoga - Lesson plan - how pictures help support text.
11. Pictures in a text - Lesson plan - Applying Question-Answer Relationships to Pictures
12. Thinking Maps - several different examples of ways to organize information.

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