Author's Purpose Pie

What is Author's Purpose?

• When the author wrote the book

• Why the author wrote the book

• Where the author wrote the book

• Who wrote the book

"Buy a hot dog and get another one for free!" The authors purpose is to...

• persuade

• inform

• entertain

• trick

What is the author's purpose of a textbook?

• to persuade

• to inform

• to entertain

• to trick

What is the author's purpose of a bedtime story?

• to persuade you

• to inform you

• to entertain you

• to trick you

What does "PIE'ED" refer to in regards to an author's purpose for writing?

• An author's purpose can be to: play, ignore, expect, end, or dance

• An author's purpose can be to: perfect, imagine, evade, enlarge, or divide

• An author's purpose can be to: persuade, inform, entertain explain, or describe

Define "PIE'ED"

• Persuade

  Inform

  Entertain

  Explain

  Describe

• Perfect

  Idea

  Equality

  Engage

  Decide

• Please

  Infer

  Everything

  Epic

  Draw

What does the acronym PIE mean?

• persuade, inform, and empathy

• persuade, infer, and entertain

• passion, inference, and empathy

• persuade, inform, and entertain

What do the letters in PIE stand for?

• persuade, investigate, examine

• program, interpret, entertain
  

• persuade, inform, entertain

• prepare, inform, experiment

The apple pie was fresh out of the oven. The cinnamon smell danced in my nose. The crust was flaky and tasted like butter. The apples were still slightly crunchy and tasted like heaven! When I touched the crust, it almost burnt me because it was so hot!            The author's purpose for the above passage is:

• Describe

• Persuade

• Inform

• Entertain

Kids should definitely have homework every night! Homework is amazing! It helps you learn whatever skill you are working on. Homework can also be fun. We should definitely have homework every single night! The author's purpose is writing this is:

• Explain

• Entertain

• Inform

• Persuade