Text Features / Main Idea /Author's Purpose

True or false: An author can only use one letter of PIE when writing.

• False
• True

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CCSS.W.5.1A

What are the three reasons for writing?  

• Persuade, Inform, Entertain
• Personal, Interview, Entertain
• Persuade, Irony, Entertain
• Personal, Inform, Evolve

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CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.3.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

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What is the author's purpose?

• to entertain you with a story about artists
• to teach you how all artists become famous
• to convince you to attend an art program
• to explain how to paint a sunset

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CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

When an author's purpose is to inform, the text will include mostly ________.

• opinions
• funny or imaginary details
• characters and a setting
• facts

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CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.W.5.2D

The author’s main purpose is not to entertain in which of the following?

• a story
• a cookbook
• a comic book
• a movie

Words like "best," "should," "think," "believe" and "feel" are clues that an author is most likely trying to ________.

• persuade
• inform
• entertain

What do the letters in PIE stand for?

• persuade, investigate, examine
• program, interpret, entertain
• persuade, inform, entertain
• prepare, inform, experiment

The broad thing that a book is about is called the ________.

• key detail
• main idea
• plot
• subject

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CCSS.RI.5.2

Descriptions of people, places or things that support the main idea are called ________.

• characters
• details
• morals
• opinions

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.W.5.2B

Which type of text structure describes an issue and at least one way to solve it?

• Chronological
• Cause & Effect
• Problem & Solution
• Compare/Contrast