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.

Authors persuade, inform, and entertain through various types of writing! Students set out to identify 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.

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

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

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.

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 review a definition for each type of author's purpose, then sort nine sentences according to these criteria.

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.

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

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.

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

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

When writing a story, adjectives make the story more colorful. This worksheet trains students to enhance sentences by adding descriptive adjectives to their writing.

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Get your students moving with this interactive sorting game!