Reading a PIE (#yum!)

We're learning about PIE!!!  Not the kind you eat though - it's a cool way of remembering the 3 main types of Author's Purpose.    My next step for reading based on the goals set at my school in New Zealand is: 

"Understanding the meaning of the text and why the author has written the text.  Identifying the purpose."  


The parts of PIE are:

Persuade - this is when the author tries to convince you to do something or share their opinion.

Inform - this when the author provides information or facts.

Entertain - this is when the author tries to grip you and make you want to read more.  This is usually fiction.

Sometimes an author can have more than one purpose.  For example if someone tried to inform you about the life of a historical person they could do it as a story.  Or if they wanted to persuade you that a company is bad and you shouldn't buy their products they might write a bunch of facts about why it's bad to help persuade.  They would be informing as well.

Here is a fun video song we found about PIE. 

PIE song by Flowcabulary

We're going on a Pie Hunt

We have just arrived in Aberdeen.  Today is our first day in a new house.  So, my Mum gave us a PIE treasure hunt challenge. We had to find examples in the house of something written to persuade, inform, entertain AND something where the author had more than one purpose.

Isaac and I both managed to find all the slices of our pie.  Yum!  I'm looking forward to learning more about PIE.