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2nd - 6th Grade Author's Purpose Resources : Page 3

Get your students moving with this interactive sorting game!

Author's Purpose: Sort It Out!

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.”

Exploring Point of View: What Do You Think?

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

Comprehension Cards

Students will identify the author’s purpose and strengthen their reading comprehension with the questions that follow the text.

The Story of the Amulet

Challenge your students to consider the author's intention of a piece of writing. Ask your students to read Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If-" and answer the questions about the author's intent.

Interpreting a Great Poem

Get plenty of practice with alliteration by identifying and creating alliterative sentences.

Identifying Alliteration, Descriptive Adjectives, and Nouns

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Alliteration Accessible.

Vocabulary Cards: Making Alliteration Accessible

After finishing <em>Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry</em> by Mildred D. Taylor, readers reflect on the major elements of the story with these writing prompts.

Novel Study: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Post-Reading Response Prompts

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

Glossary: Match Author's Point with Evidence

After completing the novel <em>Anne of Green Gables</em> by Lucy Maud Montgomery, students reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these post-reading response prompts.

Novel Study: Anne of Green Gables: Post-Reading Response Prompts

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

Glossary: Shifting Points of View

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

Author's Purpose Scavenger Hunt

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

Glossary: Who Is Telling the Story?

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: The Purpose of Fiction Texts.

Glossary: The Purpose of Fiction Texts

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

Understanding Personification

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

Through the Eyes of a Teacher

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose.

Glossary: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Match Author's Point with Evidence.

Vocabulary Cards: Match Author's Point with Evidence

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Alliteration Accessible.

Glossary: Making Alliteration Accessible

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

Glossary: Poetic Personification

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

Vocabulary Cards: Who Is Telling the Story?

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

Vocabulary Cards: Identifying the Author's Purpose

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: The Purpose of Fiction Texts.

Vocabulary Cards: The Purpose of Fiction Texts

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose.

Vocabulary Cards: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose

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

Vocabulary Cards: Shifting Points of View

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Poetic Personification.

Vocabulary Cards: Poetic Personification

Kids will love learning some fun facts about elephants while developing their reading comprehension skills. Using T-charts and Venn diagrams, they'll analyze stories and explore different characteristics of fiction and nonfiction.

Fiction vs. Nonfiction

Explore a day in the life of a pencil! Your students will practice different points of view by thinking outside the box and writing as though they are something else.

Point of View Frenzy

Give your class the "write" tools they need to become excellent authors. In this literary lesson, students use their knowledge of author's purpose to successfully write pieces that persuade, inform, and entertain.

Author's Purpose: Easy as PIE

This lesson will help students identify the author's point of view and purpose for writing an informational text.

Examining Author's Purpose in a Nonfiction Text

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