What’s on the Author's Purpose poster
A 5-row table: Purpose · Wants you to · Look for.
PIE: persuade, inform, entertain. Most texts do one mainly.
- Persuade — agree or act — opinions, emotive words, 'should'
- Inform — know something — facts, dates, diagrams, neutral tone
- Entertain — enjoy it — story, characters, humour, description
- Explain — understand how — steps, causes, 'because', 'so that'
- Instruct — do something — numbered steps, commands, materials
Adverts inform in order to persuade. When a text has two purposes, one is serving the other.
Questions about the Author's Purpose poster
- What’s on the Author's Purpose poster?
- A 5-row table: Purpose · Wants you to · Look for. PIE: persuade, inform, entertain. Most texts do one mainly. Persuade — agree or act — opinions, emotive words, 'should'; Inform — know something — facts, dates, diagrams, neutral tone; Entertain — enjoy it — story, characters, humour, description; Explain — understand how — steps, causes, 'because', 'so that'; Instruct — do something — numbered steps, commands, materials. Adverts inform in order to persuade. When a text has two purposes, one is serving the other.
- Who is the Author's Purpose poster for?
- Author's Purpose is filed under 5th Grade (ages 10–11), so it matches what that year asks a child to remember. It is equally useful to an older student revisiting literacy, and to the parent or teacher answering the question at the kitchen table.
- When should you use the Author's Purpose poster?
- Ask what the writer wanted you to do after reading. That is the purpose. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Author's Purpose belongs on the wall where that literacy work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Author's Purpose?
- Greek & Latin Roots, Making Inferences and Paragraph & Essay Frame sit alongside Author's Purpose in the 5th Grade set. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Greek & Latin RootsMaking InferencesParagraph & Essay Frame
- Is the Author's Purpose poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Author's Purpose downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the 5th Grade set. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Author's Purpose poster print at?
- Author's Purpose is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Author's Purpose loses nothing.Printing guide
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