When writing a story, adjectives make the story more colorful. This worksheet trains students to enhance sentences by adding descriptive adjectives to their writing.

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!

Use this high-interest text about sports to explore what point the author is trying to make.

Challenge your students to consider the author's intention of a piece of writing. Ask your students to read Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If-" and answer the questions about the author's intent.

Get your students moving with this interactive sorting game!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

This worksheet contains relevant classroom topics that provide a bridge for identifying differences in point of view.

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

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.

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

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

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.