Search 4th Grade Reading Literature Identifying the Author's Purpose Educational Resources

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

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–38 of The One and Only Ivan.

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

Students are asked to distinguish between first and third person narration as well as fiction or nonfiction writing.

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

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the last part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the second part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

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

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

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: Poetic Personification.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Poetic Personification.