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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Identify and Develop an Opinion.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Identify and Develop an Opinion.

Read this chapter from the classic book Pinocchio, and identify the verbs and verb clauses the author uses to create action and set the scene.

Use this resource to teach your students to identify cause and effect relationships in context by looking at the signal words.

Students identify noun phrases that describe character and setting.

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

Use this resource to help your students identify story elements in sentences.

Students learn how to identify and locate text features with this informational writing worksheet.

Help your second grade students identify the evidence behind the author’s purpose.

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.

This worksheet helps students identify and make connections between key ideas in nonfiction readings.

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.

Use this well-loved nursery rhyme to help your kindergarten students identify the letter A.

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

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying characters and their dialogue.

Kids identify information about characters and setting in this 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.

This worksheet prompts students to identify and find different text features to build their reading comprehension skills.

Identify three facts from a work of nonfiction, then draw a picture and write a caption for each.

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

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

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

Use this resource with your students as they identify the different ways a character tries to solve a problem.

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

Children learn how to identify cause and effect with the help of a friendly root vegetable in this playful worksheet.