Search 5th Grade Informational Text Identifying the Author's Purpose Educational Resources

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Match Author's Point with Evidence.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Match Author's Point with Evidence.