Author’s Aim

This focused reading comprehension worksheet helps students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 strengthen their ability to identify an author’s purpose-to inform, entertain, or persuade-by closely analyzing short passages. Students read each text, determine the writer’s main intent, and select the correct option while considering tone, structure, and content clues.

Learning Goals

• Identifying Author’s Purpose (Grades 4-6): Determine whether a passage is meant to inform, entertain, or persuade.
• Evaluating Tone & Structure: Use language, organization, and details to infer intent.
• Evidence-Based Reasoning: Justify choices using clues from the text.
• Purpose Identification Skills: Apply strategies useful for comprehension and assessments.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource: Designed by educators to align with upper elementary ELA standards.
• Clear, Structured Practice: Letter-selection format keeps focus on reasoning, not writing length.
• Supports Test Readiness: Mirrors common standardized reading questions.
• Flexible Classroom Use: Ideal for literacy centers, guided reading, homework, or assessment.

This printable worksheet helps students become more strategic readers by recognizing why a text was written. By identifying author’s purpose and supporting decisions with textual clues, learners strengthen comprehension, critical thinking, and confidence with informational and narrative texts. Whether used in a classroom or homeschool setting, this resource provides meaningful practice with author intent, tone analysis, and evidence-based reasoning.

This worksheet is part of our matching choices reading passages worksheets collection.