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Editor's Notes
- Today we are going to talk about the author’s purpose. When an author writes a story, they write with a reason in mind. We are going to watch a short video clip about the author’s purpose and then we will get a little more into it.
- That video talked about five main reasons why an author writes a story but we will only focus on three reasons.
- Those three reasons can stand for the word “PIE”. It’s as easy as pie! The “p” stands for persuade, the “I” inform and the “e” stands for entertain.
- So, let’s talk about persuade first. Sometimes an author writes to persuade the reader. When they do that they tell you their opinion of something. Like when someone runs for president they are trying to persuade you to vote for them. They are trying to make you believe the same way they believe.
- The next one is inform. When an author writes a story to inform us they tell us facts or true information. We think about science books like we have up here.Facts are used to teach, not to persuade.
- And the last one we are going to talk about today is that an author can write a story to entertain us. Let’s think about the story we read in class, “Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type.” In that story the cows were writing letters back and forth to Farmer Brown trying to get Farmer Brown to get them electric blankets. It was a funny story, we knew that cows couldn’t type and we laughed a lot. Therefore, the author’s purpose was to make us laugh, to entertain us. We could also think about comics. Author’s write comics to make us laugh. We enjoy those too. Sometimes an author even writes a story that isn’t funny, maybe it makes us cry, but it still entertains us.
- Let’s talk about a few stories we have read in class and decide if they were written to persuade, inform or entertain us. The first story I want to talk about is the book “Dogs” that we read in our Storytown reader. In that book the author told us that dogs are mammals, they were born in litters and that they can be pets. They told us things that owners need to do to keep dogs as pets. So, do you think the author’s purpose was to persuade, inform or entertain?
- You’re right! The author’s purpose was to inform us about dogs. The next book we are going to talk about is “Jamaica Louis James,” another story we read in our Storytown reader. In that story, a little girl, Jamiaca, was a very good artist and enjoyed making paintings. She would draw or paint paintings or pictures of what her grandma would talk about went on at the subway station. Jamaica and her grandmother both believed that the subway station was plain and it needed to have some color. Jamaica decided that she would take some of her paintings and drawings down to the subway station to decorate the walls. So, what do you believe the author’s purpose was? Was it to persuade, inform or entertain us?
- Entertain. You’re right! The author was trying to entertain us. It was written for us to enjoy. Now the last one I want to talk about is our letters we wrote to Santa. Santa gets letters from all different kinds of kids. You were trying to make him believe that he should bring you that special gift. Therefore, what were you doing? What was your purpose when you wrote your letter to Santa? Was it to persuade, inform or entertain?
- Persuade. That’s right!
- So, we’ve learned that author’s write stories for many different reasons. They write to persuade, inform and entertain. It’s just that easy. It’s as easy as pie!