Author’s Purpose Worksheets

Use these author’s purpose worksheets to see if your 4th and 5th graders understand the concept. Author’s purpose is important for all students to understand. Use this project to teach the author’s purpose by showing students how different authors write. The teacher can show students how the exact same picture can have various writing styles. This project will teach students how an author can describe, inform, explain, persuade, and entertain.

Use author’s purpose example posters to show how an author can write in different ways on the same topic. There are various ways that the student can practice their understanding of author’s purpose with the materials inside this product.

Inside Author’s Purpose Worksheets:

• Author’s Purpose Posters to Show writing styles
• Blank Authors Purpose posters for student practice
• Author’s Purpose Flip Book- for students to fill out
• Author’s Purpose Booklet
• Author’s Purpose Matching Activity

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This activity can be fun to show kids how the same information can be written differently. Challenge the students in your classroom to do the same by assigning them a topic. Have kids explore ways to describe, inform, entertain, persuade and explain.

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