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.

Learners will read and interpret three types of nonfiction text features in this three-page practice worksheet.

With this exercise, students will think deeply about their reading by describing important events, asking questions, and making comparisons.

Children learn to recognize how they can write with a certain reader, or audience, in mind, in this hands-on worksheet.

Help students master summarizing using keywords with this reading comprehension worksheet.

As your students complete this reading comprehension exercise, they will learn about their lungs while practicing active reading skills.

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

Learners will practice distinguishing fact from opinion in this literacy worksheet.

Discover how events are related to their outcomes in this worksheet!

Children learn about three women who emerged as influential photographers during the Great Depression in the United States through the FSA program.

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

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from parts 2 and 3 of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from the next part of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Use this worksheet to help your students practice identifying adverbs, read fluently, and demonstrate their reading comprehension.

Readers practice identifying the main idea in works of nonfiction in this two-page reading comprehension worksheet.

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

Learners will practice identifying the theme of a story by reading a short passage and answering four comprehension questions.

Practice identifying and interpreting nonfiction text features in this worksheet about the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the third part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Children will discover more about the culinary history of early Americans as they practice practice identifying the main idea and supporting details.

Use this resource with your students to practice not only identifying the problem and solution in a text, but also the character’s attempts at solving the problem.

Young readers practice identifying the theme of a story in this thoughtful fable about two friends who find gold in the forest.

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