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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Children will love this imaginative worksheet that invites them to identify the main idea of a movie plot by coming up with a title for it!

Using this template, readers will use symbols and words to identify the ways a character's actions, thoughts, and words change from the beginning to the end of a story.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Identifying the Author's Purpose.

Noun phrases can give readers important information about the characters and settings of a story. This worksheet will help your students identify noun phrases that describe characters and settings in fictional texts.

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

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