1st - 4th 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.

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

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

This short nonfiction text will teach students about the ocean, and includes questions to help students identify the author’s point of view and purpose for writing the text by focusing on important vocabulary words that support the main idea.

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

Identifying the author’s purpose is as easy as P-I-E with the right mnemonic device!

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.

Your students will love reading this classic fable as they seek to determine the author’s purpose and differentiate fiction from nonfiction.

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.

Students will read an adaptation of the classic story "The Princess and the Pea" by Hans Christian Andersen. Then they'll seek to determine the author’s purpose and explain their reasoning.

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

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.

Help your second grade students identify the author’s purpose as they answer questions about a nonfiction text.

Help your second grade students identify the evidence behind the author’s purpose.

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.

When writing a story, adjectives make the story more colorful. This worksheet trains students to enhance sentences by adding descriptive adjectives to their writing.

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

This worksheet contains relevant classroom topics that provide a bridge for identifying differences in point of view.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Identifying the Author's Purpose.

Use this worksheet to help students identify personified nouns and their respective verbs.

Authors use sensory language to make their writing more descriptive. Have your students consider the words authors use to create specific moods in this fun pumpkin-themed worksheet!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Shifting Points of View.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: The Purpose of Fiction Texts.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: The Purpose of Fiction Texts.

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

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose.

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