Author’s Worksheet
Directions: Answer the questions about the author you have chosen. Make sure you write
your answers in complete sentences. You must complete the Reading for Meaning handout
(DESCRIPTION side) as well.
1. Who is the author and where does he/she live?
2. Write a paragraph describing the author's background information.
3. What are two books this author has written?
4. After reading one of your selected author's books, in your own words, write a one
paragraph summary of that particular book.
Reading for Meaning
After you've read a text/story once, use the following set of questions to guide your rereadings of the text/story. The question on the left-hand side will help you describe and
analyze the text; the question on the right hand side will help focus your response(s).
DESCRIPTION
RESPONSE
I. Purpose
Describe the author's overall purpose (to
inquire, to convince, to persuade, to
negotiate or other purpose)
Is the overall purpose clear or muddled?
How did the essay or text actually affect
you: did the author's purpose succeed?
How does the author want to affect or change
the reader?
Was the author's actual purpose different from
the stated purpose?
II. Audience/Reader
Who is the intended audience?
Are you part of the intended audience?
What assumptions does the author make
about the reader's knowledge or beliefs?
Does the author talk to or talk down to the
reader?
From what context or point of view is the
author writing?
III. Thesis and Main Ideas
What question or problem does the author
address?
Where is the thesis stated?
What is the author's thesis
Are the main ideas actually related to the
thesis?
What main ideas are related to the thesis?
Do key passages convey a message different
from the thesis?
What are the key moments or key passages
in the text?
What assumptions (about the subject or about
culture) does the author make?
Are there problems or contradictions in the
essay?
What bothers or disturbs you about the essay?
Where do you agree or disagree?
IV. Organization and Evidence
Where does the author preview the essay's
organization?
Where did you clearly get the author's signals
about the essay's organization?
How does the author signal new sections of
the essay?
Where were you confused about the
organization?
What kinds of evidence does the author use
(personal experience, descriptions,
statistics, other authorities, analytical
reasoning, or other).
What evidence was most or least effective?
Where did the author rely on assertions rather
than on evidence?
V. Language and Style
What is the author's tone (casual,
humorous, ironic, angry, preachy, distant,
academic, or other)?
Did the tone support or distract from the
author's purpose or meaning?
Are sentences and vocabulary easy, average
or difficult?
Did the sentences and vocabulary support or
distract from the purpose or meaning?
What words, phrases, or images recur
throughout the text?
Did recurring works or images relate to or
support the purpose or meaning?
Remember that not all these questions will be relevant to any given text, but one or two of
them may suggest a direction or give a focus to your overall response.
When one of these questions suggests a focus for your response to the reading, go back to
the text to gather evidence to support your response.
Creating Scavenger Hunts
Scavenger hunts are great tools to teach Internet navigation skills and basic computer
skills to students while introducing, reinforcing or as a follow-up to academic concepts.
Students and/or teachers can develop a series of questions and hot link keywords to
websites to locate the answers. After locating the answer, students can highlight,
copy, and click Back to paste the answer in the scavenger hunt.
TASK: You need to create an online scavenger hunt using online sources.
➢ The theme of your scavenger hunt is any aspect relating to Children’s Literature
(a story (ies), an author, theme, etc.)
➢ You must create 10 complete questions.
➢ Answer key must be included with answers to questions and Internet URL where
the answer can be found.
➢ No more than three questions can come from the same online resource.
➢ You must follow the format provided.
Put a Catchy Title Here Scavenger Hunt
By (Your-Name-Here)
Instructions: Type a paragraph of instructions here. Include such things as what the hunt is about,
why you want your students to do this hunt and instructions for completing the task.
1. Title of the Page to be visited
URL: http://
Type a question or an instruction here
2. Title of the Page to be visited
URL: http://
Type a question or an instruction here
3. Title of the Page to be visited
URL: http://
Type a question or an instruction here
4. Title of the Page to be visited
URL: http://
Type a question or an instruction here
5. Title of the Page to be visited
URL: http://
Type a question or an instruction here
6. Title of the Page to be visited
URL: http://
Type a question or an instruction here
7. Title of the Page to be visited
URL: http://
Type a question or an instruction here
8. Title of the Page to be visited
URL: http://
Type a question or an instruction here
9. Title of the Page to be visited
URL: http://
Type a question or an instruction here
10. Title of the Page to be visited
URL: http://
Type a question or an instruction here
Conclusion: If you want, include some closing comments here.
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