Main Idea, Details, Tone, Author’s Purpose, Intended Audience

The P in PIEED

• Punctual

• Persuade

• Perchance

• Punctuation

The I in PIEED

• Inform

• Instruct

• Indeed

• Informational

The Es in PIEED

• Explain and Entertain

• Entertain and Enforce

• Evaluate and Entertain

• Encourage and Extrapolate

The D in PIEED

• Determine

• Devalue

• Describe

• Demonstrate

Another term for PIEED is:

• Author's Purpose

• Writer's Target

• Intended Audience

• Text Structure

The ____________ of a passage is what the passage is about.

• Key Details

• Figurative Language

• Theme

• Main Idea

The following sentence could be described as a:

The main idea of this article can be summarized by detail 1, detail 2, and detail 3.

• Thesis Statement

• Introductory Sentence

• Conclusionary Sentence

• Hook

A new LCS policy is coming out next year about needing school uniforms. Imagine you're writing a persuasive letter about why students shouldn't have to wear them. Who should be your intended audience?

• The school board

• Parents

• Other students

• The President

Tone is best described as:

• How the author feels

• How the writing makes you feel

• The message or moral of the story

• The way in which the text is structured

Mood is best described as:

• How the author feels

• How the writing makes you feel

• The message or moral of the story

• The way in which the text is structured