Edit to craft a tone that is appropriate for the topic and audience, and supports the purpose. 0601.3.14

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1. Author's Purpose: Save the Wilbur - read a story online and answer questions on paper - a detailed explanation follows passage, teaching how to find the answers in passages
2. Author's Purpose: A Winning Breakfast - read a story online and answer questions on paper - a detailed explanation follows passage, teaching how to find the answers in passages
3. Common Tone Words - a list of common tone words to help identify tone of stories
4. Comparative Exercise - find all the features unique to the text format.
5. A Rough Hierarchy for Revision and Editing - Effective revising starts with the most general characteristics of an essay and gradually moves to more specific characteristics.
6. Elements of Fiction: Style and Tone - Tone refers to the writer’s attitude toward his/her story and to the reader. The writer’s tone assists in creating a mood or atmosphere for the story.
7. Strategies for Helping Readers - reading strategies with video and lessons
8. Teaching Tone vs. Mood using Computer-Based Multimedia - lesson plan that can be adapted using Photostory 3.0 [this high school lesson plan could be adapted to teach this standard]
9. Tone in Literary Fiction - review definition and examples of tone
10. Tone: A Matter of Attitude - Tone and purpose are very much related: one's tone is defined by why one is writing and vice versa.
11. Tone in Business Writing - provides overviews and examples of how to use tone in business writing. This includes considering the audience and purpose for writing
12. Tone and Mood - Tone is the author’s attitude toward a subject.
13. Writing Guide: Audience - Recognize that different readers can best understand different messages

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