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.

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

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

Students complete a figurative language flip chart from the mnemonic device I SHAMPOO C.