PIEED: Author's Purpose

What is the main reason why an author writes a text?

• To hide the true meaning

• To confuse the readers

• To waste paper

• To communicate ideas, entertain, inform, persuade, or explain, or describe.

When an author writes to inform, what is their main goal?

• To entertain the audience with fictional stories.

• To provide factual information and educate the audience.

• To persuade the audience to take a specific action.

• To confuse the audience with contradictory information.

What type of text would likely have the author's purpose of persuading?

• An editorial, advertisement, or persuasive essay

• A cookbook, a biography, a science textbook

In a text with the author's purpose of entertaining, what is the main focus?

• Engage and amuse the audience

• Confuse and mislead the audience

• Persuade and convince the audience

• Inform and educate the audience

What is the Author's Purpose of the text below:

Building a bird house is a relatively simple task. Begin by cutting your wood to size, according to the pattern you've chosen. Before cutting, be sure to measure each pattern twice to ensure you are cutting the wood to the correct length.

• Persuade

• Inform

• Entertain

• Explain

• Describe

What is the Author's Purpose of the text below:

Hellen Keller was born in 1880 and died in 1968. Despite being deaf and blind, Keller was a political activist, a lecturer, an author, and a tireless advocate for those with disabilities.

• Persuade

• Inform

• Entertain

• Explain

• Describe

What is the Author's Purpose of the text below:

Do you carpool to school? Do you take a bus? It should be a requirement for everyone to either share a ride or walk to school every day. If we are serious about saving the planet, we must take steps to conserve energy and reduce fossil fuel emissions.

• Persuade

• Inform

• Entertain

• Explain

• Describe

What is the Author's Purpose of the text below:

Today, it is not uncommon to see women wearing high-heeled shoes. However, the first high-heeled shoes were actually made for men back in the 1500s. The heels helped soldiers keep their feet in the stirrups of their saddles as they rode into battle.

• Persuade

• Inform

• Entertain

• Explain

• Describe

What is the Author's Purpose of the text below:

Driving west from Capital Park, turn left onto Maple Avenue. Continue for 3 blocks until you come to Trumbull Street, and then turn right. The library will be on your left.

• Persuade

• Inform

• Entertain

• Explain

• Describe

What is the Author's Purpose of the text below:

Once upon a time in a magical kingdom, there lived a great hero. He was about to set out on a dragon's quest!

• Persuade

• Inform

• Entertain

• Explain

• Describe