3rd - 5th Grade Author's Purpose Worksheets

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Use this worksheet to provide an engaging text for your students as they practice reading and analyzing an author’s claims.

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.

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

This nonfiction text about soccer will help students to practice finding evidence to support the author's point.

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

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.”

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 sentences.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

When your students read this exaggerated tale, they will find a ton of hyperboles!

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

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

Get your students moving with this interactive sorting game!

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

Get plenty of practice with alliteration by identifying and creating alliterative sentences.

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.