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

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.

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

Learners will review a definition for each type of author's purpose, then sort nine sentences according to these criteria.

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 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.

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