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

Learn to identify first, second, and third person perspective in writing!

This resource helps your EL students identify and explain charts, graphs, and diagrams.

Students will learn to identify introductory phrases and use them to cite nonfiction texts.

Help students learn how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a text.

Students will make inferences, compare texts, and identify figurative language as they interpret reading passages.

Students will identify the main idea and supporting details in a short nonfiction text.

Students will identify supporting details, in the form of adverbial phrases, in a nonfiction text excerpt.

Use signal words to identify text structure in this fourth- and fifth-grade worksheet!

Help your active readers identify key vocabulary and important details with the help of two graphic organizers!

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

In this exercise, students will work through a series of steps to identify the theme of a classic story.

Use an open-ended graphic organizer to help your students identify the problem and solution in three stories.

It's time to find some rhymes! Help your budding poet learn to identify rhyme schemes in poetry with this worksheet.

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when using description.

Learners practice using context clues to identify the meaning of new words in this language and vocabulary worksheet.

Learners practice using context clues to identify the meaning of new words in this language and vocabulary worksheet.

Children to identify the theme of a story from the Panchatantra, an ancient collection of Indian animal fables.

This graphic organizer helps students quickly identify the main events in the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional text.

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

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when comparing and contrasting.

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.

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

Young readers will discover how to identify the point of view of a story or text in this literacy worksheet.

Help your EL students identify big ideas before they write short summaries.

Use this graphic organizer to help your students identify the four elements of a fictional story: characters, setting, problem, and solution.

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when describing cause and effect.

With this reading exercise, students will identify a character’s traits and provide evidence from the text.

Children will use six question words — who, what, when, where, why, and how — to identify the problem and solution in a short passage.

Help your growing reader understand characterization with this worksheet that asks her to identify the heroes and villains in the book she's reading.