Search Printable 4th Grade Reading Literature Identifying the Author's Purpose Worksheets

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–38 of The One and Only Ivan.

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

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

Students are asked to distinguish between first and third person narration as well as fiction or nonfiction writing.

Learners will categorize 12 different types of text according to why the author would write them, using the acronym PIE as a mnemonic device.

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

Students will rewrite the narration and point of view of various texts.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Who Is Telling the Story?

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Poetic Personification.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Poetic Personification.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Shifting Points of View.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Shifting Points of View.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Who Is Telling the Story?