Use this high-interest text about sports to explore what point the author is trying to make.

Help your second grade students identify the author’s purpose as they answer questions about a nonfiction text.

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

This nonfiction text about soccer will help students to practice finding evidence to support the author's point.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

This worksheet contains relevant classroom topics that provide a bridge for identifying differences in point of view.

Use this worksheet to provide an engaging text for your students as they practice reading and analyzing an author’s claims.