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1st - 8th Grade Nonfiction Author's Purpose Educational Resources

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.

Literary Nonfiction Response Prompt: Author’s Purpose

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

Identify the Author's Purpose

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.

Author's Purpose

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

Extended Informational Reading Comprehension: The Buzz About Beekeeping

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

Detecting the Author's Purpose

Challenge your students to find real world examples of the author’s purpose with this text-based scavenger hunt.

Author's Purpose Scavenger Hunt

Give your class the "write" tools they need to become excellent authors. In this literary lesson, students use their knowledge of author's purpose to successfully write pieces that persuade, inform, and entertain.

Author's Purpose: Easy as PIE

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

Glossary: Identifying the Author's Purpose

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Identifying the Author's Purpose.

Vocabulary Cards: Identifying the Author's Purpose

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Match Author's Point with Evidence.

Glossary: Match Author's Point with Evidence

This lesson will help students identify the author's point of view and purpose for writing an informational text.

Examining Author's Purpose in a Nonfiction Text

Use this discussion guide to support readers&rsquo; comprehension of chapters 12&ndash;15 and the epilogue of William Kamkwamba&rsquo;s The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Discussion Guide #4

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students read chapters 5-8 of A Night to Remember by Walter Lord.

Book Study: A Night to Remember: Discussion Guide #2

Use this discussion guide to support readers&rsquo; comprehension of the first part of William Kamkwamba&rsquo;s The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.

Book Study: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Discussion Guide #1

Use this discussion guide to support readers&rsquo; comprehension of the next part of William Kamkwamba&rsquo;s The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.

Book Study: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Discussion Guide #2

Use this discussion guide to support readers&rsquo; comprehension of chapters 8-11 of William Kamkwamba&rsquo;s The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.

Book Study: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Discussion Guide #3

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

Informational Reading Comprehension: Sustaining the World With Seaweed

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

Informational Reading Comprehension: Imitating Nature

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

Extended Reading Comprehension: Funding Space Exploration

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

Extended Informational Reading Comprehension: Extraordinary Elements

Use these questions to encourage critical thinking and support literacy development as students read the first few diary entries of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

Book Study: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Discussion Guide #1 

Encourage critical thinking with this discussion guide as students read the next set of Anne&rsquo;s diary entries in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

Book Study: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Discussion Guide #3 

Use these engaging discussion prompts to support literacy development as students read the next set of entries in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

Book Study: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Discussion Guide #2 

Support key literacy skills with these discussion questions as students continue their reading of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

Book Study: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Discussion Guide #4

Use this guide to encourage critical thinking and literacy development as students read the final passages in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

Book Study: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Discussion Guide #5

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.

Point of View Practice: Titanic

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

Taking Notes With Informational Texts: Central Idea and Key Details

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

Basketball: Nonfiction Text

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

First vs. Third Person Narration

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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1st - 8th Grade Nonfiction Author's Purpose Educational Resources