Author's Purpose Anchor Chart – Reading Reference

Name the three purposes an author writes 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

Ask "Why did the author write the text?" as a routine question when meeting a new text

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

Both pages carry an RI6 mark in the corner, which is a strand reference the contributor has added to the design rather than a heading students need to read

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.

Distinguishing opinion from fact — the persuade description centres on the author's opinion and talking a reader into something, while the inform description centres on facts and details.

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.