Author's Purpose, Tone, and Point of View Lab

Students sort texts by purpose, highlight tone words, shift connotation, identify point of view and track perspective.

Grades 4–12Virtual lab · 5 stations1 student per deviceNo student loginsWorks offline

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Grade versions included

Grades 4–5: P.I.E. sorting, cheerful vs. gloomy tone words, word swaps, first vs. third person and two sides of a story
Grades 6–8: Four purposes, diction in Poe's “The Tell-Tale Heart,” connotation, limited vs. omniscient narrators and counterclaims
Grades 9–12: Ethos, pathos, logos and kairos, irony in Swift and Austen, register, unreliable narrators and concessions

Author's purpose, tone and diction, connotation, narrative point of view, author's perspective, rhetorical appeals and irony (9–12)

OAS Standard 3: Critical Reading and Writing

Common Core: RL.4 · RL.6 · RI.6

Open the game file in any web browser: Chromebooks, laptops or your smartboard. No accounts, no student logins and no internet needed once it's downloaded.
The download has a separate file for each grade band. Open the one that fits your class.
Each student types their name on the Start page, then works through the stations in order. Each station has a prediction, a hands-on activity, a data table or log that fills in as they work and a check question.
Students finish with a printable lab report (print or save as PDF). The Teacher Notes include the standards, a full answer key and a reset button for shared devices.
Each purchase includes the lab files and a one-page Quick Start guide.