Author and Illustrator is a free printable Kindergarten English worksheet on who writes the words and who makes the pictures, aligned to Common Core standard RL.K.6. It prints 8 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. All 25 sets ask different questions.

Author and Illustrator

RL.K.6

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Tick the right answer.

1.Which one uses drawings to show you what happened?

A.The illustrator
B.The author
C.The reader

2.A book has one name on the front. Whose name is usually first?

A.The author's
B.The shop's
C.The reader's

3.The pictures in this book are beautiful. Who should we thank?

A.The author
B.The printer
C.The illustrator

4.The story in this book is funny. Who wrote it?

A.The teacher
B.The illustrator
C.The author

5.Sometimes one person does both jobs. What are those two jobs?

A.Printing and selling the book
B.Reading and lending the book
C.Writing the words and making the pictures

6.Which one uses words to tell you what happened?

A.The author
B.The illustrator
C.The reader

7.Who makes the pictures in a book?

A.The author
B.The librarian
C.The illustrator

8.If a book had no author, what would be missing?

A.The pictures
B.The words
C.The pages

LessonPrint · RL.K.6 · Set 8 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — Author and Illustrator

Set 8. Prints on its own sheet.

1.The illustrator
2.The author's
3.The illustrator
4.The author
5.Writing the words and making the pictures
6.The author
7.The illustrator
8.The words

More practice for RL.K.6

Know that one person wrote the words and one drew the pictures, and say which did which.

Teaching this next? The Author and the Illustrator is the 30-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.K.6 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.