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Kindergarten - 7th Grade Author's Purpose Educational Resources

What&rsquo;s all the buzz about beekeeping? Give students this four-page nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet to find out!

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Extended Informational Reading Comprehension: The Buzz About Beekeeping

Students read all about seaweed and answer standards-based comprehension questions in this four-page reading comprehension worksheet.

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Informational Reading Comprehension: Sustaining the World With Seaweed

BOOM! This worksheet is full of all kinds of sound-based words, from creaks to squeaks.

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What is Onomatopoeia?

This worksheet will help your child understand what similes are, and she'll even get to use her imagination to write some of her own!

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Scrambled Similes

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

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Informational Reading Comprehension: Imitating Nature

Authors persuade, inform, and entertain through various types of writing! Students set out to identify the author’s purpose.

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Identify the Author's Purpose

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

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Author’s Purpose Task Cards

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

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Author’s Purpose: Multiple Choice

Introduce readers to the poem &ldquo;When I Was One-and-Twenty&rdquo; by English poet A. E. Housman with this sixth-grade worksheet!&nbsp;

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Analyzing Poetry: “When I Was One-and-Twenty” by A.E. Housman

This four-page worksheet gives students a chance to engage deeply with a rigorous nonfiction text about government funding for space exploration.

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Extended Reading Comprehension: Funding Space Exploration

Use this high-interest text with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view. Students will determine the author’s viewpoint on the subject of the Titanic as they establish their own points of view.

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Point of View Practice: Titanic

Descriptive language and metaphoric phrases take the spotlight in this workbook. Kids use new vocabulary and common phrases to tackle writing skills.

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Figurative Language

Students read an excerpt adapted from L. Frank Baum’s short story “The Girl Who Owned a Bear” and answer reading comprehension questions about the text.

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Reading Comprehension: The Girl Who Owned a Bear

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1&ndash;38 of The One and Only Ivan.

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Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #1

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

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Detecting the Author's Purpose

This sample nonfiction text about basketball helps students to explore author's point of view.

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Basketball: Nonfiction Text

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.

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Should I Recycle This?: Nonfiction Text

Use this science-themed resource with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view in a text about life cycles. Students will determine the author’s viewpoint on the subject as they establish their own points of view.

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Point of View Practice: Life Cycle of a Frog

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

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Taking Notes With Informational Texts: Central Idea and Key Details

Students are asked to distinguish between first and third person narration as well as fiction or nonfiction writing.

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First vs. Third Person Narration

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

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The Reality of Zoos: Nonfiction Text

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.

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The Ocean

Children will practice bringing excitement to their writing in this fun language and vocabulary worksheet.

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Examples of Hyperbole! Part 2

This short fictional text can be used to help students determine words and phrases the author uses to help the reader figure out the central message of the story.

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Emily's Turtle

This nonfiction text about soccer will help students to practice finding evidence to support the author&#39;s point.

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Soccer: Nonfiction Text

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.

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Author's Purpose

Learn about facts vs. opinions in this reading comprehension worksheet. Kids will read two sets of text and decide which is fact and which is opinion.

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Facts vs. Opinions

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from parts 2 and 3 of R.J. Palacio&rsquo;s Wonder.

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Novel Study: Wonder: Discussion Guide #2

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the second part of Katherine Applegate&rsquo;s The One and Only Ivan.

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Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #2

Learn about Eleanor Roosevelt, the groundbreaking first lady known for her humanitarian work and for being the first U.S.delegate to the United Nations in 1942.

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Kindergarten - 7th Grade Author's Purpose Educational Resources