Exploring Author’s Purpose: Comparing Persuade, Inform, and Entertain

This six-page activity pack introduces the PIE framework—persuade, inform, and entertain—through harvest-themed informational texts, poems, and editorials.

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This six-page activity pack introduces the PIE framework—persuade, inform, and entertain—through harvest-themed informational texts, poems, and editorials. Students annotate passages, identify author techniques, compare texts, and respond to writing prompts.

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Students will identify whether a text is written to persuade, inform, or entertain.
Students will analyze techniques authors use to achieve a purpose.
Students will compare how authors approach a similar topic.
Students will support their analysis with evidence from texts.

Exploring Author’s Purpose: Comparing Persuade, Inform, and Entertain

See exactly what you’ll get

Clear goals. Useful learning.

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