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Author’s Purpose Task Cards

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

4th grade

Reading & Writing

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Identify the Author's Purpose

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Identify the Author's Purpose

Authors persuade, inform, and entertain through various types of writing! Students set out to identify the author’s purpose.

4th grade

Reading & Writing

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Detecting the Author's Purpose

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Detecting the Author's Purpose

Learners will categorize 12 different types of text according to why the author would write them, using the acronym PIE as a mnemonic device.

4th grade

Reading & Writing

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Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #1

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Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #1

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–38 ofThe One and Only Ivan.

4th grade

Reading & Writing

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First vs. Third Person Narration

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First vs. Third Person Narration

Students are asked to distinguish between first and third person narration as well as fiction or nonfiction writing.

4th grade

Reading & Writing

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Examples of Hyperbole! Part 2

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Examples of Hyperbole! Part 2

Children will practice bringing excitement to their writing in this fun language and vocabulary worksheet.

4th grade

Reading & Writing

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Fact or Opinion Sentences

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Fact or Opinion Sentences

Differentiating between facts and opinions is a key fourth grade skill to master and is helpful in identifying the author’s purpose in a text. Use this activity to give your students extra practice differentiating between these two kinds of sentences.

4th grade

Reading & Writing

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Graphic Organizer: Author’s Point of View

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Graphic Organizer: Author’s Point of View

This graphic organizer helps students work through a nonfiction text to help organize information about the author’s point, and the reasons and evidence used to support it.

4th grade

Reading & Writing

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Historical Heroes: Eleanor Roosevelt

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Historical Heroes: Eleanor Roosevelt

Learn about Eleanor Roosevelt, the groundbreaking first lady known for her humanitarian work and for being the first U.S.delegate to the United Nations in 1942.

4th grade

Reading & Writing

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Shifting Points of View

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Shifting Points of View

Students will rewrite the narration and point of view of various texts.

4th grade

Reading & Writing

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Fall Figurative Language Task Cards

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Fall Figurative Language Task Cards

Ideal for fourth and fifth graders, this worksheet includes figurative language examples and definitions on the first page, and a second full page of questions and tasks that can be used to check for understanding.

4th grade

Reading & Writing

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Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #4

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Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #4

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the last part of Katherine Applegate’sThe One and Only Ivan.

4th grade

Reading & Writing

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Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #2

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Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #2

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the second part of Katherine Applegate’sThe One and Only Ivan.

4th grade

Reading & Writing

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Exploring Point of View: What Do You Think?

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Exploring Point of View: What Do You Think?

From the topic of roller coasters to the topic of spinach, this kid-friendly worksheet guides a student in comparing their opinion to the opinions of the fictional character named “Jimmy.”

4th grade

Reading & Writing

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