Message Intent

This practical reading and media literacy worksheet helps students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 strengthen comprehension, critical thinking, and real-world communication skills by analyzing the purpose behind everyday emails. As students read four different messages, they determine whether each email is meant to inform, request, persuade, or remind, using specific wording and details as evidence for their choices.

Learning Goals

• Author’s Purpose Identification (Grades 4-6): Determine whether an email’s intent is to inform, request, persuade, or remind.
• Evidence-Based Reasoning: Cite key phrases and details that reveal the sender’s purpose.
• Understanding Email Intent: Analyze how tone, word choice, and structure shape meaning in digital communication.
• Media Literacy Skills: Interpret messages critically rather than reading them at surface level.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource: Designed by educators to align with upper elementary ELA and media literacy standards.
• Real-World Application: Builds skills students need for school, home, and future digital communication.
• Clear, Structured Prompts: Guides students to justify answers using evidence from the text.
• Flexible Classroom Use: Ideal for independent practice, discussion, homework, or assessment.

This printable worksheet helps students develop confidence in identifying message intent, analyzing author’s purpose, and supporting ideas with textual evidence. By examining how wording reveals communication goals, learners gain stronger comprehension and digital literacy skills. Whether used in a classroom or homeschool setting, this resource provides meaningful practice with email analysis, critical reading, and thoughtful interpretation of everyday texts.

This worksheet is part of our reading emails worksheets collection.