The main focus of 'Decoding Author's Purpose: An Interactive PIE Lesson' is to help students understand why authors write texts, using the acronym PIE (Persuade, Inform, Entertain). It includes exercises for identifying these purposes in different texts.
In 'Decoding Author's Purpose: An Interactive PIE Lesson', students learn how to identify clues within a text that indicate whether its purpose is to persuade, inform or entertain. They then get hands-on practice through sorting exercises and application on short texts.
Activities in 'Decoding Author's Purpose: An Interactive PIE Lesson' include warm-up discussions on various texts, learning about the acronym PIE (Persuade, Inform, Entertain), practicing identification through sorting text cards according to their purpose, applying learned concepts on short texts, and summarizing lessons through interactive summaries.