Browse 5th Grade Author's Purpose in Nonfiction Educational Resources

Identify the Author's Purpose

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

5th grade

Reading & Writing

Worksheet

Detecting the Author's Purpose

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Detecting 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.

5th grade

Reading & Writing

Worksheet

Graphic Organizer: Author’s Point of View

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Graphic Organizer: Author’s Point of View

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.

5th grade

Reading & Writing

Worksheet

Historical Heroes: Eleanor Roosevelt

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Historical Heroes: Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

5th grade

Reading & Writing

Worksheet

Basketball: Nonfiction Text

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Basketball: Nonfiction Text

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

5th grade

Reading & Writing

Worksheet

Should I Recycle This?: Nonfiction Text

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Should I Recycle This?: Nonfiction 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.

5th grade

Reading & Writing

Worksheet

Fifth Grade Fall Review Packet - Week 4

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Fifth Grade Fall Review Packet - Week 4

This final installment of our Fifth Grade Fall Review Packet offers five more days of fun and diverse learning activities to prepare children to enter fifth grade with confidence.

5th grade

Reading & Writing

Workbook