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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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