The main focus of 'Decoding Author's Intent: An Interactive Reading Lesson' is to help students understand how to analyze an author's reasoning and evidence in a text.
The 'Decoding Author's Intent: An Interactive Reading Lesson' includes various activities such as reading passages, answering questions based on these passages, matching evidence, finding evidence in texts, and applying learned skills to other texts.
The 'Decoding Author's Intent: An Interactive Reading Lesson' encourages critical thinking by prompting students to analyze an author’s purpose and evidence in different texts they have read or seen.