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2nd - 5th Grade Common Core Author's Purpose Worksheets

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

Identify the Author's Purpose

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

Author’s Purpose Task Cards

Identifying the author’s purpose is as easy as P-I-E with the right mnemonic device! 

Author’s Purpose: Multiple Choice

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.

Author's Purpose

What&rsquo;s all the buzz about beekeeping? Give students this four-page nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet to find out!

Extended Informational Reading Comprehension: The Buzz About Beekeeping

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

Detecting the Author's Purpose

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

Author's Purpose Scavenger Hunt

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

Glossary: Identifying the Author's Purpose

Get your students moving with this interactive sorting game!

Author's Purpose: Sort It Out!

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

Vocabulary Cards: Identifying the Author's Purpose

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

Glossary: Match Author's Point with Evidence

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from the next part of R.J. Palacio&rsquo;s Wonder.

Novel Study: Wonder: Discussion Guide #3

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from parts 2 and 3 of R.J. Palacio&rsquo;s Wonder.

Novel Study: Wonder: Discussion Guide #2

Build critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for the eighth and final part&nbsp;of R.J. Palacio&rsquo;s Wonder.

Novel Study: Wonder: Discussion Guide #5

Build critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for parts 5-7&nbsp;of R.J. Palacio&rsquo;s Wonder.

Novel Study: Wonder: Discussion Guide #4

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1&ndash;38 of The One and Only Ivan.

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #1

Children will practice bringing excitement to their writing in this fun language and vocabulary worksheet.

Examples of Hyperbole! Part 2

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the second part of Katherine Applegate&rsquo;s The One and Only Ivan.

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #2

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the last part of Katherine Applegate&rsquo;s The One and Only Ivan.

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #4

After reading the next few chapters of Pam Mu&ntilde;oz Ryan&rsquo;s&nbsp;Esperanza Rising, engage students in discussion with this two-page guide!

Novel Study: Esperanza Rising: Discussion Guide #2

Use these discussion questions to engage students in thoughtful dialogue as they read chapters 9-12 of Pam Mu&ntilde;oz Ryan&rsquo;s novel Esperanza Rising!

Novel Study: Esperanza Rising: Discussion Guide #3

After reading the last sections of Pam Mu&ntilde;oz Ryan&rsquo;s novel Esperanza Rising, engage your students in a discussion with these questions!

Novel Study: Esperanza Rising: Discussion Guide #4

BOOM! This worksheet is full of all kinds of sound-based words, from creaks to squeaks.

What is Onomatopoeia?

This worksheet will help your child understand what similes are, and she'll even get to use her imagination to write some of her own!

Scrambled Similes

This short fictional text can be used to help students determine words and phrases the author uses to help the reader figure out the central message of the story.

Emily's Turtle

Use this high-interest text with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view. Students will determine the author’s viewpoint on the subject of the Titanic as they establish their own points of view.

Point of View Practice: Titanic

This sample nonfiction text about basketball helps students to explore author's point of view.

Basketball: Nonfiction Text

Students are asked to distinguish between first and third person narration as well as fiction or nonfiction writing.

First vs. Third Person Narration

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.

The Ocean

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.

Should I Recycle This?: Nonfiction Text

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