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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Get your students moving with this interactive sorting game!

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

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

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

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

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

Read and analyze an excerpt adapted from “The Wreck of the Golden Mary” by Charles Dickens with this reading comprehension worksheet!