Search 4th 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.

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

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.

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.

Students will rewrite the narration and point of view of various texts.

From the topic of roller coasters to the topic of spinach, this kid-friendly worksheet guides a student in comparing their opinion to the opinions of the fictional character named “Jimmy.”

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Who Is Telling the Story?

Children read about Ada Lovelace, whose ideas are still used in computing today, in this biography worksheet.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Identifying the Author's Purpose.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Identifying the Author's Purpose.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Shifting Points of View.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Shifting Points of View.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Who Is Telling the Story?