Author's purpose is a challenging skill for most kids, but in this post, you'll get teaching tips and activities to help break down this skill for your students.

P-I-E is a classic but limited way to teach author's purpose. You need receipts! Teach students to "get the receipt" to determine author's purpose. This system will help students more precisely determine and name the purpose of informational texts, nonfiction, poetry, criticism, and independent reading! Perfect for middle school language arts and high school or secondary ELA teachers.

Have you increased the rigor in order to prepare your students for author's purpose test questions? This blog post contains FREE author's purpose test prep passages, posters (persuade, inform, entertain, explain, describe), and many more upper elementary classroom ideas!

Our Cool School: Author's Purpose Sort - change passages to fit your students grade level ;)

When we discuss theme in my classroom, I often compare it to doing a jigsaw puzzle: when you do one, you shake out all of the pieces, then look for the corners and edges to make a start. Next, you use the picture on the box to guide you as you fill in the rest. When […]

Check out these great Author's Purpose anchor charts. These simple charts will engage your students while they learn about identifying the author's purpose in nonfiction text. Add these to your lessons and activities to help your students gain mastery!

Learners will practice identifying the author's purpose in eight sample paragraphs, using text evidence to support their choice.

If you have access to iPads, Chromebooks, laptops or computers and teach author's purpose, then check out this post for some technology activities.

An author writes to entertain, inform and persuade. Do you know how to figure this out? Get our printed author's purpose worksheets and learn how.