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Grade 1 English Language Arts · Level 4, Understand Information and Grow Vocabulary

Find an Author’s Reasons

Identify the reasons an author gives to support a point in a text.

How the lesson starts: Find an Author’s Reasons

1. Zara's big idea

   Hi! This is Zara the zebra. Zara has a big idea. Gardens are great! That is her point. A point is what the author thinks. Reasons tell why.

2. Point and reasons

   Zara's point is gardens are great. Why? Reason one. We can grow food. Reason two. Bees can visit the flowers. Reason three. Gardens make our school pretty.

3. Let's find a reason

   Zara reads. Trees are useful. They give us shade on hot days. Birds build nests in them. Which reason is in the text? They keep the air clean? True, but not written here! Trees never need water? Not in the text. They give us shade. The author wrote that!