The multi-lesson, 47-page packet contains everything you need to ensure kids can recognize the clues provided to identify the type of text, the intended audience, and the author's purpose in writing the passage.

How does an author entertain his or her audience? Read a short fairy tale and find the most evocative passages to discover more about author's purpose in narrative writing.

What is the author's purpose in writing a joke book? What about a book about the digestive system? Explore author's purpose with a worksheet that challenges kids to identify whether ten books are meant to entertain, inform, or persuade.

After reading The Mitten by Jan Brett, scholars discuss the author's purpose. Small groups compare and contrast a book written to entertain and a book to inform, then create a T-Chart detailing the characteristics of...

Challenge your class to find the three purposes for writing. After they read three short passages, kids note whether the author's purpose was to inform, persuade, or entertain.

How can you tell the author's purpose from just a short summary? Kids read three different summaries of books to determine whether the author meant to entertain, persuade, or inform.

What is the author's purpose when writing a narrative story? Kids read a short narrative passage before answering three questions about author's purpose.

It's not very hard to find the author's purpose in narrative, informative, or persuasive writing, but what happens when an author's purpose includes all three types of writing? Determine which sentences in three paragraphs are meant to...

We chew with our teeth every day, but how much do we really know about them? Allow Ms. Frizzle to teach your kids a thing or two about teeth. Kids complete a prereading exercise, read the book, and respond to several prompts about the...

To get to the heart of a writer's purpose, remember to have some PIE (Persuade, Inform, or Entertain)! And, appropriately, here is a PIE chart that leaves room for pupils to identify each letter of the acronym and any other ideas or...

In this everyday editing learning exercise, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Lucy Cousins. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar.

Several worksheets and assessments are provided on this module. Students will have numerous exposures to the topic of "author's purpose" in each practice exercise and assessment.

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.

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.

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.

In this interactive game, students match terms relating to author's purpose to examples of each; the purposes are to persuade, inform, and entertain.

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.

This interactive assessment features 6 multiple-choice over author's purpose terms and examples: The terms are to persuade, inform, and entertain.

Read short texts and determine whether their purpose is to inform, entertain, or persuade in order to move around the board in this online learning game. Click on video lessons for an understanding of author's purposes including types of...

This set of interactive flashcards focuses on the terms relating to author's purpose and examples of each; the purposes are to persuade, inform, and entertain.

Read each text description and determine if its purpose would be to entertain, inform, or persuade in this five question quiz.

An online learning activity where students read four titles and choose what the author's purpose for each text would be: to inform, to entertain, or to persuade.