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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

This worksheet contains relevant classroom topics that provide a bridge for identifying differences in point 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.