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

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

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

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

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.

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

Children read about Ada Lovelace, whose ideas are still used in computing today, in this biography worksheet.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards 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.