Nonfiction Author's Purpose Resources

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

This nonfiction text about soccer will help students to practice finding evidence to support the author's point.

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

Use this resource with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view in a text about a major historical event. Students will read a passage about the Tsunami of 2004 and determine the author’s viewpoint as they establish their own 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 sentences.

Use this two-page graphic organizer to help students compare and contrast informational narratives from two different genres.

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.

Students will rewrite the narration and point of view of various texts.

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

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

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

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.

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.

From the topic of roller coasters to the topic of spinach, this kid-friendly worksheet guides a student in comparing their opinion to the opinions of the fictional character named “Jimmy.”