Lesson Plan
Gallery Walk
Get students out of their seats with this lesson that teaches them about PIE in regards to author's purpose. Students will learn the importance of an author's purpose with this lesson that takes them on a gallery walk.
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Learning Objectives
After this activity students will be able to determine the author’s purpose when reading text.
Introduction
(10 minutes)- Ask students if they know why writers write. Example: Do you know whether or not authors have different reasons for writing? Do authors have a purpose in their writing? What could that be?
- Watch Author's Purpose by Plattsmouth Elementary School.
- Discuss what the video was about by drawing a big pie on the board and "cut" it into three pieces. Write "persuade", "inform", and "entertain" in each piece of your pie. Underline the first letter of each word to spell PIE.
- Start by defining these three words: An author aims to persuade their audience when they want to convince them of something. An author aims to inform their audience when they want to teach them something. An author aims to entertain their audience when they want to amuse them.
- Let students know that these goals are the author's purpose.
- Tell students that they will be going on a gallery walk, which is usually done in a museum where art is displayed, but this time instead of art, they will be looking at authors' pieces of writing to determine the purpose of each piece.