5th - 8th 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.

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.

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.

Use this worksheet to encourage critical thinking and support students’ literacy development by asking questions before, during, and after reading.

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.

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.

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.

Use this two-page graphic organizer to help students compare and contrast informational narratives from two different genres.

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

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!

Use this Novel Discussion Guide for Parents as a guide to invite your child into a book discussion about their latest reading!

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.

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

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.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Match Author's Point with Evidence.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Alliteration Accessible.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Alliteration Accessible.

This graphic organizer helps your students examine descriptive adjectives and nouns.