Educational worksheet teaching students to identify an author's purpose by categorizing text types into persuasive, informative, or entertaining.

A worksheet titled "What is the Author's Purpose?" with three columns labeled "To Persuade," "To Inform," and "To Entertain," each with a definition and blank spaces for examples. Below are word cards including "newspaper article," "magazine article," "commercial," "biography," "speech," "story," "billboard," "poem," and "song."