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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Students will use an adjective word bank to help them identify statements of fact and opinion.

Help your young reader learn to identify themes with the Panchatantra story "The Broken Pot" a classic fable from India that has a moral lesson.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Identifying Character and Setting.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Identifying Character and Setting.

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

In this worksheet, students will read about Anne Frank, then complete a chart identifying cause and effect.

Read interesting nonfiction texts about natural disasters and practice identifying causes and effects.

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

Young readers will refer to a passage from The Secret Garden to answer a series of reading comprehension questions.

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

Use this graphic organizer to have students write words or draw pictures to complete the story map.

Get your students moving with this interactive sorting game!

With this storyboard, students will draw and write about events in a chronological order.

Introduce your students to two myths from different cultures.

This graphic organizer template provides a helpful framework for young scholars as they begin to read to learn.

This graphic organizer helps students work through a nonfiction text to help organize information about the author’s point, and the reasons and evidence used to support it.

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

In this biography worksheet, children read a passage about Booker T. Washington's life, then follow a series of thoughtful prompts to reflect on what they have learned.

Students will practice using pronouns to help them understand point of view.

Children are introduced to two beautiful examples of the power of words in this “I Have a Dream" Speech and "My Country ‘Tis of Thee" Song worksheet.