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

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

This nonfiction text about soccer will help students to practice finding evidence to support the author's point.

This worksheet gives your students practice reading and analyzing informational text to explain the author’s claim and supporting reasons.

Use this worksheet to provide an engaging text for your students as they practice reading and analyzing an author’s claims.

Use this resource to give your students practice reading a short nonfiction passage and recognizing the author’s viewpoint about the topic. Then, they will pick out the text evidence that supports the author’s viewpoint.

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

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