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How was writing first invented? Find out by reading this delightful story by Rudyard Kipling, "How the First Letter was Written."

How the First Letter was Written

In this worksheet, kids will learn about the author's perspective, an essential component of nonfiction comprehension.

Author Inferences and Quotes as Proof

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

Detecting the Author's Purpose

Familiarity with different types of texts is an important part of the first grade reading curriculum. In this worksheet, kids read Christina Rossetti's famous poem, "Caterpillar" and then answer questions about what they read.

Caterpillar

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.

Graphic Organizer: Author’s Point of View

Students will answer who, what, when, where, when, why, and how questions after reading a story by Rudyard Kipling.

Reading Comprehension: How the First Letter Was Written

Students will use sentence frames to cite quotes from nonfiction texts.

Cite an Author with Introductory Phrases

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.

Author's Purpose

Learn about Carl Sagan, an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, and author.

Carl Sagan Biography

Children are introduced to author, activist, and poet Maya Angelou in this historial heroes worksheet.

Historical Heroes: Maya Angelou

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

Tennis: Nonfiction Text

This Shakespeare biography, written for kids, teaches young readers, writers and thespians all about the literary giant.

Shakespeare Biography

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

Identify the Author's Purpose

This nonfiction text about soccer will help students to practice finding evidence to support the author&#39;s point.

Soccer: Nonfiction Text

Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.

Reading Corner: Main Idea & Details Part 1

Read this chapter from the classic book Pinocchio, and identify the verbs and verb clauses the author uses to create action and set the scene.

Identifying Verbs: Pinocchio

Play author with this creative writing and comprehension exercise! Your child will learn all about inference, or drawing conclusions based on what they&#39;ve read.

What Happened Next?

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

Glossary: Identifying the Author's Purpose

Identifying the author’s purpose is as easy as P-I-E with the right mnemonic device! 

Author’s Purpose: Multiple Choice

Learn about one of the world's most mysterious pieces of written text, the Voynich manuscript, which has never been deciphered.

Voynich Manuscript

This short fictional text can be used to help students determine words and phrases the author uses to help the reader figure out the central message of the story.

Emily's Turtle

This worksheet helps your child focus on prediction and comprehension in "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." Kids will read the classic fable and answer written prompts.

The Boy Who Cried Wolf Prediction and Comprehension

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.

The Author’s Viewpoint vs. My Viewpoint

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

Vocabulary Cards: Identifying the Author's Purpose

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

Glossary: Match Author's Point with Evidence

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

Author’s Purpose: The Ant and the Grasshopper

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

Author's Purpose Scavenger Hunt

Historic novels are rich sources of reading practice and this graphic organizer is a nod to prairie classics like those written by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Prairie Girl Character Traits

Learners will review a definition for each type of author's purpose, then sort nine sentences according to these criteria.

Author’s Purpose Sort: It’s as Easy as Pie!

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

Author’s Purpose Task Cards

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