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

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

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

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

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

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.

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