Author's Purpose Anchor Chart – Reading Reference

Name three common purposes authors write for — to persuade, to inform, to entertain — using the P-I-E device as the memory hook

Match a purpose to its description: opinion and persuasion, facts and details, or making a reader laugh or cry

State the purpose of a text read in class and back the judgement with evidence, using the printed sentence frame

Display the completed page as the classroom reference and hand out the blank one, so students build the same chart themselves rather than copying a finished poster

The sentence frame carries the reasoning step — "I know this because" — so it is worth insisting on the second half of the sentence whenever the chart is used

Reduce the blank page to notebook size for a reading journal; the layout has no fine detail that suffers from shrinking

Identifying author's purpose — students decide whether a text was written to persuade, inform or entertain, using the three glosses printed on the completed chart.

Evidence-based reasoning — the blank version's sentence frame requires "I know this because ______", so a purpose judgement has to be justified from the text.

Building a reference chart — teachers post the completed version and have students complete the blank one for a reading notebook, giving classroom display and personal copy the same wording.