1st - 5th Grade Author's Purpose Resources

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.