Middle School Author's Purpose Resources

How is a train like a bird? Find out in this sixth-grade informational reading comprehension worksheet all about biomimicry!

Use this graphic organizer to give students an opportunity to practice identifying the central idea of a text using key details.

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

Introduce readers to the poem “When I Was One-and-Twenty” by English poet A. E. Housman with this sixth-grade worksheet! 

Learn about what makes certain elements cooler than others in this chemistry-based informational reading passage! 

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

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

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.

Have students compare and contrast fictional and historical accounts with this seventh-grade reading comprehension worksheet!

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.

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