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

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.

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

These printable cards give students the chance to practice using supporting evidence to identify an author’s claims.

Use this worksheet to help students identify personified nouns and their respective verbs.

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.

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

Learners will practice identifying the author's purpose in eight sample paragraphs, using text evidence to support their choice.

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

Get your students moving with this interactive sorting game!

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

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.