Students will read an adaptation of the classic story "The Princess and the Pea" by Hans Christian Andersen. Then they'll seek to determine the author’s purpose and explain their reasoning.

Your students will love reading this classic fable as they seek to determine the author’s purpose and differentiate fiction from nonfiction.

This graphic organizer helps students work through a nonfiction text to help organize information about the author’s point, and the reasons and evidence used to support it.

Use this worksheet to help students identify personified nouns and their respective verbs.

This short nonfiction text will teach students about the ocean, and includes questions to help students identify the author’s point of view and purpose for writing the text by focusing on important vocabulary words that support the main idea.

Differentiating between facts and opinions is a key fourth grade skill to master and is helpful in identifying the author’s purpose in a text. Use this activity to give your students extra practice differentiating between these two kinds of sentence

Students will identify the author’s purpose and strengthen their reading comprehension with the questions that follow the text.

Authors persuade, inform, and entertain through various types of writing! Students set out to identify the author’s purpose.

Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on determining and analyzing the author’s purpose in a nonfiction text.

This informational text about a topic relevant to students can be used to help explain author’s claims and the reasons used to support them.

Challenge your students to consider the author's intention of a piece of writing. Ask your students to read Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If-" and answer the questions about the author's intent.

Use this resource to give your students practice reading a short nonfiction passage and recognizing the author’s viewpoint about the topic. Then, they will pick out the text evidence that supports the author’s viewpoint.

Students complete a figurative language flip chart from the mnemonic device I SHAMPOO C.

All authors write for a reason, be it to explain, entertain, or persuade their readers. In this activity, your students will consider the author’s purpose of a book of their choosing, then justify their answer.

Learners will practice identifying the author's purpose in eight sample paragraphs, using text evidence to support their choice.

Children read about Ada Lovelace, whose ideas are still used in computing today, in this biography worksheet.

Challenge your students to find real world examples of the author’s purpose with this text-based scavenger hunt.

Help your second grade students identify the evidence behind the author’s purpose.

Learners will categorize 12 different types of text according to why the author would write them, using the acronym PIE as a mnemonic device.