Search Author's Purpose in Nonfiction Educational Resources

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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