3rd and 4th Grade Common Core Author's Purpose Resources

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

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

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.

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

Use this science-themed resource with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view in a text about life cycles. Students will determine the author’s viewpoint on the subject as they establish their own points of view.

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

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

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.

Learn about Eleanor Roosevelt, the groundbreaking first lady known for her humanitarian work and for being the first U.S.delegate to the United Nations in 1942.

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

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

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 sentences.

From the topic of roller coasters to the topic of spinach, this kid-friendly worksheet guides a student in comparing their opinion to the opinions of the fictional character named “Jimmy.”

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.

Use this resource with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view in a text about a major historical event. Students will read a passage about the Tsunami of 2004 and determine the author’s viewpoint as they establish their own point

Students will rewrite the narration and point of view of various texts.

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.

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

Ideal for fourth and fifth graders, this worksheet includes figurative language examples and definitions on the first page, and a second full page of questions and tasks that can be used to check for understanding.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Use this glossary 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: Poetic Personification.