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

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

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.

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

This worksheet gives your students practice reading and analyzing informational text to explain the author’s claim and supporting reasons.

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

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.

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 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.

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

This graphic organizer can help students analyze a story, scenario, disagreement or controversy from multiple perspectives.