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

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

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

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.

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

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

This short nonfiction text will teach students about the ocean, and includes questions to help students identify the author’s point of view and purpose for writing the text by focusing on important vocabulary words that support the main idea.

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

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

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 sentence

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.

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.