E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Author's Purpose Scavenger Hunt
Identifying author's purpose scavenger hunts are included on this tutorial site. Students will scan their textbooks and find different purposes that are addressed in different sections of them.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Author's Purpose: Reading Test 2
A ten-question quiz on identifying whether an author's purpose is to persuade, inform, or entertain the reader. Students are asked to type an explanation for each answer. Results can be printed, saved, or emailed.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Author's Purpose: Reading Test 3
A ten-question quiz on identifying whether an author's purpose is to persuade, inform, or entertain the reader. Students are asked to type an explanation for each answer. Results can be printed, saved, or emailed.
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Author's Purpose Pie
Third graders will determine the authors purpose in creating a story.
That Quiz
That Quiz: Author's Purpose
In this 10 question, self-grading quiz, students read a topic and label the author's purpose as to inform, entertain, or persuade. The quiz is timed, but not limited.
Read Works
Read Works: Author's Purpose 3rd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-activity unit on author's purpose. In the first activity, students practice identifying the author's purpose as to entertain, to persuade, or to inform. In the second activity, students use...
Read Works
Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Author's Purpose
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach learners to identify author's purpose including to entertain, to inform, and to persuade. Lessons are based on the books The Adventures of Taxi Dog by...
University of South Florida
University of South Florida: Fcat Express: Author's Purpose Activity
Practice identifying author's purpose by recognizing the purpose in titles, understanding the difference between fact and opinion, and identifying the purpose of various forms of writing.
University of South Florida
Fcat Express: Author's Purpose
Learn about author's purpose and then answer some self-assessment questions after the lesson. Continue clicking the next button to get to more information.
Other
Prezi: Author's Purpose
Slideshow provides an explanation of the author's purpose which is to reflect, inform, persuade, or entertain (RIPE).
TES Global
Blendspace: Authors Purpose
A five-part learning module with links to videos and an image on author's purpose.
Read Works
Readworks: Reading Lesson 3: To Persuade
This lesson focuses on identifying text evidence that shows that the author's purpose is to persuade. Draw a conclusion about what the author is trying to persuade the reader to do or think. Text, worksheet, and chart are provided.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts, Grade 10: Rhetoric
Students engage with texts that have persuasive power and examine how argument is created. The variety of texts allows students to evaluate the impact of occasion and audience upon the use of rhetorical appeals in a variety of media....
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Types of Texts Fact Sheets
Six printable fact sheets on how to understand and recognize different types of text including descriptive, informative, instructive, and persuasive.