Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Poetic Personification.

Authors use sensory language to make their writing more descriptive. Have your students consider the words authors use to create specific moods in this fun pumpkin-themed worksheet!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Alliteration Accessible.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Poetic Personification.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Shifting Points of View.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Describe Sensory Details.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Alliteration Accessible.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Who Is Telling the Story?

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Shifting Points of View.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Match Author's Point with Evidence.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: The Purpose of Fiction Texts.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Who Is Telling the Story?

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Identifying the Author's Purpose.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Match Author's Point with Evidence.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: The Purpose of Fiction Texts.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Identifying the Author's Purpose.

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

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

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.

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

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.

These printable cards give students the chance to practice using supporting evidence to identify an author’s claims.

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

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

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