Search Printable 5th Grade Identifying the Author's Purpose Worksheets

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

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.

This sample nonfiction text about basketball helps students to explore author's point of view.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the last part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Learn about Eleanor Roosevelt, the groundbreaking first lady known for her humanitarian work and for being the first U.S.delegate to the United Nations in 1942.

Students complete a figurative language flip chart from the mnemonic device I SHAMPOO C.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the second part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Match Author's Point with Evidence.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Match Author's Point with Evidence.

To fully enjoy this classic story, your kid should understand the symbols in To Kill a Mockingbird. This writing worksheet helps develop text analysis skills.