Why Does the Author Say So? is a free printable Kindergarten English worksheet on finding the reason an author gives, aligned to Common Core standard RI.K.8. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 24 of them with 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.
Set 21 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. 24 of these 25 sets ask different questions — this skill does not have 25 questions to give. The rest reorder them, so no two pupils have the same paper in front of them.
Why Does the Author Say So?
RI.K.8
NameDate
Read the text, then answer the questions.
1.Read the text, then answer the questions.
Four Seasons
A year has four seasons. In spring, new leaves grow. In summer, the days are long and warm. In autumn, leaves turn red and gold and fall down. In winter, the days are short and cold. Then spring comes again.
1. Why did the author write this?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.
From Egg to Frog
A frog starts as an egg in the water. The egg hatches into a tadpole. A tadpole has a tail and no legs. The tadpole grows back legs. Then it grows front legs. Its tail gets shorter. At last it is a frog.
1. Why does the text say the tail gets shorter?
LessonPrint · RI.K.8 · Set 21 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Why Does the Author Say So?
Set 21. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. To teach us about the four seasons.
2.1. Because the tadpole is changing into a frog, which has no tail.
More practice for RI.K.8
Find the reason the writer gives for something they said.
Teaching this next? The Reasons an Author Gives is the 30-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.