Author's Purpose

To remember all the different purposes authors can write with, don't just think PIE. Think PIEE.PersuadeInformExpressEntertain Review the following image. Read the following selections and sort them into categories based on the author's purpose. Persuade Times almost out! Youonly have a few hoursleft to get this amazingbicycle at this amazingprice! This bike has thenewest technology witheasy glide tires, anelectronic blinker, andeven brake lights. Don’tlet this opportunitypass you by! Inform Soil has many layers.The top layer of soil isgood for growing plants.It has humus in it,which is basically deadanimal debris. Humusgives the roots lots ofminerals to grow. Express Dear Diary, Today my kite flew higher andhigher. It swerved anddanced among the clouds.The cool wind cutthrough my clothinggiving me goose bumps,but I could not reel mykite in. It was havingtoo much fun up there! What a wonderful day! Love, Me Entertain “What’s that smell?” thegirl asked. She lookedaround the room for guiltyfaces. She thought “Thereis no way my teacher didthat”! Mrs. Potts pulledher lunch box from behindher back and said “This iswhy you don’t leave yourlunchbox at school. Itstinks the next day!” What is the purpose of this video? Be prepared to explain. What is the purpose of the video above? persuade you to buy a panda inform you about the runaway habits of pandas express to you a panda's feelings of being in a pen entertain you with a cute escapee panda Building a future in which humans live in harmony with nature. Review the website. What is the purpose of the website above? Explain. Read the following selection. High in dense bamboo forests in the misty, rainy mountains of southwestern China lives one of the world's rarest mammals: the giant panda, also called the panda. Only about 1,000 of these black-and-white relatives of bears survive in the wild.Pandas eat almost nothing but bamboo shoots and leaves. Occasionally they eat other vegetation, fish, or small animals, but bamboo accounts for 99 percent of their diets. Pandas eat fast, they eat a lot, and they spend about 12 hours a day doing it. The reason: They digest only about a fifth of what they eat. Overall, bamboo is not very nutritious. To stay healthy, they have to eat a lot—up to 15 percent of their body weight in 12 hours—so they eat fast.Pandas' molars are very broad and flat. The shape of these teeth helps the animals crush the bamboo shoots, leaves, and stems they eat. To get the bamboo to their mouths, they hold the stems with their front paws, which have enlarged wrist bones that act as thumbs for gripping. A panda should have at least two bamboo species where it lives, or it will starve.Pandas are shy; they don't venture into areas where people live. This restricts pandas to very limited areas. What was the author's purpose in the excerpt above? persuade inform express entertain Explain how you figured out the author's purpose in the excerpt above. Use details from the selection. STAAR often likes to use synonyms for our PIEE words. What words can you think of that they might use instead of persuade, inform, express, and entertain? Type at least one synonym for persuade. synonym= word that means the same thing Type at least one synonym for inform. Type at least one synonym for express. Type at least one synonym for entertain. What is your name? Type your first and last name.