Help your second grade students identify the evidence behind the author’s purpose.

Help your second grade students identify the author’s purpose as they answer questions about a nonfiction text.

Use this worksheet to help students identify personified nouns and their respective verbs.

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

This worksheet contains relevant classroom topics that provide a bridge for identifying differences in point of view.

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

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

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.