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Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: The Purpose of Fiction Texts.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: The Purpose of Fiction Texts.

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

Your students will love reading this classic fable as they seek to determine the author’s purpose and differentiate fiction from nonfiction.

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.

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

Help your second grade students identify the author’s purpose as they answer questions about a nonfiction text.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose.

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

Get your students moving with this interactive sorting game!

Help your second grade students identify the evidence behind the author’s purpose.

Students will identify the author’s purpose and strengthen their reading comprehension with the questions that follow the text.

Authors use sensory language to make their writing more descriptive. Have your students consider the words authors use to create specific moods in this fun pumpkin-themed worksheet!

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.

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