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.

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

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!

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

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 these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Poetic Personification.

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

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

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