This gives you room to add more details about each type. If you’ve got room, consider making three separate author’s purpose anchor charts. Wyatt’s Wise Owl Teacher Creations/Teacher’s Dojo 10. Want a clear chart with illustrations? You can print this one for free at the link! This chart helps remind them to look past the main idea to determine why the author is writing. Some students may confuse topic with purpose. The questions on this handy chart help kids think hard about the author’s purpose in writing. Bonus tip: Can’t draw a pie? Print one out and paste it to the chart! This PIE chart gives kids cues to look for while they read to help them identify the author’s purpose. Serve them a slice of PIE by adding paper plates to your chart. Source: Brittany McThenia Stein/Pinterest 5. We love the color coding for the “pie” fillings and examples. Here’s an engaging version of the Easy as PIE author’s purpose anchor charts to try. Really want to get your students’ attention? Add a 3-D element! This is one of those author’s purpose anchor charts that’s sure to make an impression. The fundamental question students need to be able to answer is “Why did the author write the book?” This chart introduces the PIE method and provides some examples. Then narrow down the reasons to basics, such as to entertain, persuade, inform, teach, and so on. Start the discussion by asking kids to think about why writers write in the first place. Choose a few to try with your students soon! 1. Either way, these author’s purpose anchor charts provide plenty of assistance for young readers. Others choose to add more details, or approach the topic from another angle. Many teachers use the classic “easy as PIE” method: Persuade, Inform, and Entertain. You can find the anchor chart below in the Reading Interactive Notebook.Understanding author’s purpose gives students a deeper connection and helps expand their reading comprehension. They start with the purpose of the text and make choices about the genre, structure, text, word choice, and features to help him/her achieve that purpose. They are architects designing their stories and texts. Likewise, authors make design choices about their writing. These buildings are designed in very different ways because they all have different purposes. For example, a school is built for the purpose of educating students, a hospital for the purpose of healing the sick and wounded, and a house for the purpose of providing shelter and comfort for a family. So, we should compare authors to architects.Īn architect makes choices about the design of a building based on its intended purpose. We want our readers to determine the author’s main idea (or theme), examine the way he/she went about expressing and supporting that main idea, and analyze why he/she chose to write about it. So, How Do We Go About Teaching Author’s Purpose? In order to encourage your students to go beyond the surface, you need to move beyond PIE. Leading students to believe that we can easily categorize texts into three or four purposes causes a lack of depth in their analysis. Rather than labeling all nonfiction as “to inform,” encourage them to ask, is the author describing? Comparing? Explaining? Showing the causes and effects of events? In addition, we want our students to deepen their analysis of nonfiction texts. The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry and The Lorax by Dr. Some fiction stories are designed to persuade us to think or care about something. Stories with strong themes such as fables and folktales are often written to teach, or express a life lesson. It’s just not that simple.Īll fiction texts were not written simply to entertain. We can’t teach our students that you can determine an author’s purpose based on genre alone. The problem is, author’s purpose is not “as easy as pie.” Let’s all trash those cute anchor charts from years past and go further with our instruction, exclude the word “easy,” and forgo the urge to list genres underneath these purposes. We all search for easy ways for our students to remember things, and PIE or (PIES) is a simple acronym for some common reasons that authors write a text. It’s a cute saying, the anchor charts are adorable, and it’s easy for the kids to remember. Why Isn’t Author’s Purpose As Easy As PIE?
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