Display this set of Author’s Purpose Pie posters to help students remember the various reasons authors write.
Author’s Purpose Pie Poster Set
Use this set of Author’s Purpose Pie posters to make identifying the author’s purpose simple and engaging for your students. This set of visually appealing posters has been created to break down the three main reasons authors write
- Persuade – The author tries to convince the reader to agree with a viewpoint or take action.
- Inform – The author provides facts or explains a topic to increase knowledge.
- Entertain – The author tells a story or engages the reader through humor, drama, or creativity.
Each poster uses student-friendly language and bright, engaging visuals to reinforce learning and make the author’s purpose easy to remember.
Perfect for Author’s Purpose Classroom Display
This set of posters works perfectly in the classroom and can be used in the following ways:
- Classroom walls as a quick and easy guide for students to use during reading activities.
- Anchor charts for literacy lessons to support whole-class instruction on text analysis.
- Print the posters four to a page and use them for individual use to help students identify and apply the author’s purpose in various texts.
Why not add small texts that can be sorted under each of these categories to the display to add another element of visual help for your students.
Learning to Identify the Author’s Purpose for a Text
Why do we teach the author’s purpose to young readers? Is it developmentally appropriate? The answer is…Absolutely!
Identifying the author’s purpose helps readers recognize the writer’s techniques to achieve that purpose: word choice, style, tone, and content. It guides us in considering that the author might have different opinions or experiences than our own and viewing the text through those lenses.
Download and Print these Author’s Purpose Anchor Charts Today!
Use the dropdown menu to download this printable Author’s Purpose anchor chart, choose between the easy to print PDF version or the editable Google Slides version.
This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher and a Teach Starter Collaborator.
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