This identifying author's purpose worksheet has 3rd graders read a giraffe passage and decide whether the author wants to inform, persuade, or entertain. Answer key included for easy reading practice.

An illustrated author's purpose worksheet where 2nd graders read four short passages and fill in the bubble for entertain, persuade, or inform. Answer key included, so reading practice takes minutes to set up and score.

This Informational Text Graphic Organizer Worksheet gives 4th graders one landscape page to record genre, author's purpose, key vocabulary, and important facts from any nonfiction text — a reusable, no-prep way to build stronger reading comprehension.

This Identifying the Author and the Illustrator Worksheet helps 1st Grade readers name who wrote the words and who drew the pictures, with an answer key included so checking work takes seconds.

Using this Where the Wild Things Are Worksheet, students describe the title, author, and illustrator of Where the Wild Things Are.

This Who's Talking Worksheet asks 2nd Grade readers to match four quoted lines back to the character who said them, then explain how they knew, with an answer key included.

This author's point and supporting evidence worksheet gives 3rd grade students a short persuasive article, four questions, and a written response, with an answer key, so they learn to prove an idea from the text.

This author and illustrator of a story worksheet helps kindergarten students match each helper to the words or pictures of a book. An answer key is included for quick, easy checking.

This characters voice and point of view worksheet gives 4th graders four short stories to sort into first person and third person, with text-evidence lines. Answer key included for fast, no-prep reading practice.

This author’s purpose of informational text worksheet asks 3rd graders to decide which question each short nonfiction text was written to answer. An answer key is included, so it is easy no-prep practice for close reading.

The Who Is Talking Now Worksheet gives 3rd Grade readers three short stories and asks who is telling each one. An answer key is included, so students build point of view skills with quick feedback.

This Purpose Worksheet gives 3rd graders six short passages to sort into persuade, inform, or entertain, plus two clue-word items. An answer key is included, so it works as a quick no-prep reading check.

Using RI.5.8 Fifth Grade Common Core Lesson, students explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point(s).

Using Authors Purpose Matching Activity, studentsmatch the text to the Author's Purpose activity card to explain why the author wrote the book.

Using Finding the Author and Illustrator Activity, students define the role of an author and illustrator using the definition cards.

This 100th Day of School Party Worksheet is a great way to teach your kids about the author and illustrator of a book to celebrate the 100th day of school.

Using this Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Authors Worksheet, students describe what authors do to tell their story.

Using Author and Illustrator Activity, studentsname the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text.

This author and illustrator worksheet helps kindergarten students circle who made each card, the author who writes words or the illustrator who draws pictures. An answer key is included for quick checking.

Using Why Was it Written Author's Purpose Activity, students identify if the author wrote a text in order to answer, explain, or describe.