Author's Purpose in Fiction Printable Worksheets

BOOM! This worksheet is full of all kinds of sound-based words, from creaks to squeaks.

This worksheet will help your child understand what similes are, and she'll even get to use her imagination to write some of her own!

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

All authors write for a reason, be it to explain, entertain, or persuade their readers. In this activity, your students will consider the author’s purpose of a book of their choosing, then justify their answer.

Use these task cards with your students to practice reading short passages and help them determine the author's purpose.

Help your child learn about sensory language as they write a 5-senses poem.

Your students will love reading this classic fable as they seek to determine the author’s purpose and differentiate fiction from nonfiction.

Use this resource to practice identifying the author’s purpose of short texts.

Students will set out to categorize different types of text using the author's purpose as a guide.

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 sentences.

Get your students moving with this interactive sorting game!

Similes are all around us—sometimes you just need a little context to know how to decipher them! This lighthearted story about a twisted ankle contains two hidden similes. Can your students find them?

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

Help your child learn about sensory language as they describe an experience.

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

When your students read this exaggerated tale, they will find a ton of hyperboles!

Get your child reading ready with this worksheet, which will support your child's reading skills by helping him to identify emotions.

When writing a story, adjectives make the story more colorful. This worksheet trains students to enhance sentences by adding descriptive adjectives to their writing.

Students will read an adaptation of the classic story "The Princess and the Pea" by Hans Christian Andersen. Then they'll seek to determine the author’s purpose and explain their reasoning.

Use this exercise to differentiate between texts written to persuade, inform, and entertain.

This short fictional text can be used to help students determine words and phrases the author uses to help the reader figure out the central message of the story.

Ideal for fourth and fifth graders, this worksheet includes figurative language examples and definitions on the first page, and a second full page of questions and tasks that can be used to check for understanding.

Challenge your students to consider the author's intention of a piece of writing. Ask your students to read Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If-" and answer the questions about the author's intent.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Alliteration Accessible.

Get plenty of practice with alliteration by identifying and creating alliterative sentences.