Purpose Pie Organizer
Daily Reading Activity
Author's Purpose Sorting Board
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Baker's Sorting Guide: Cut out your reading slips, purpose descriptions, or story examples. Glue or paste them into the correct recipe columns below!
Sort P, I, and E
P
Persuade
Glue Here
I
Inform
Glue Here
E
Entertain
Glue Here
Perfect for hands-on matching, sorting, and pasting!
P.I.E. SORTING BOARD • LANDSCAPE FORMAT
Purpose Pie Poster
Reader's Kitchen Guide
A Slice of Author's Purpose
Every writer cooks up a story for a specific reason. What's the flavor of your book?
P
Persuade Convince the Reader
The author wants you to believe, think, or do something. They share opinions and arguments!
🔑 Secret Clues should, must, best, worst, I believe, agree, try this!
🥧 Recipe Examples Advertisements, Letters, Speeches, Toy Reviews
I
Inform Teach the Reader
The author wants to explain real-world facts, teach information, or show how processes/ideas work.
🔑 Secret Clues how-to, dates, statistics, charts, maps, definitions
🥧 Recipe Examples Textbooks, Recipes, News, Biographies, Manuals
E
Entertain Engage the Reader
The author wants to tell a creative story, make you laugh, feel excitement, or simply enjoy reading!
🔑 Secret Clues characters, funny dialog, plots, setting, poetry, jokes
🥧 Recipe Examples Fairy Tales, Comic Strips, Novels, Storybooks
The Quick Taste Test Checklist
Taste P
Did they try to convince me or change my mind?
Taste I
Did I learn real-world facts or how things work?
Taste E
Did they treat me to a great, fun narrative?
Purpose Pie Cards
Printable Cutouts
Purpose Pie Snippets
Carefully cut out each recipe slip along the dotted lines.
9 Cards to Cut & Sort
Recipe Card #1
The Golden Glaze
Stop eating dry, boring breakfast bars! You deserve the warm, melt-in-your-mouth perfection of our Honey-Glazed Donuts. Drive down to Baker Brown’s today and treat yourself to the absolute best donut in town—your tastebuds will thank you!
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Recipe Card #2
Crust Foundations
To bake a perfect pie crust, you must mix ice-cold water, unsalted butter, flour, and a pinch of salt. Pressing the dough into a dish and baking it at 375 degrees Fahrenheit for twenty minutes prevents the crust from getting soggy when you add fillings.
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Recipe Card #3
The Great Cupcake Escape
Barnaby was no ordinary chocolate cupcake. The moment the oven door creaked open, Barnaby wiggled his frosting, bounced off the cooling rack, and zipped straight out the bakery door. "You'll never catch me!" he yelled to the surprised baker.
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Recipe Card #4
How Bread Rises
Yeast is a tiny living organism that feeds on sugars found in bread dough. As it digests the sugar, yeast produces carbon dioxide gas. This gas gets trapped in the stretchy flour dough, creating thousands of tiny pockets that cause the loaf to expand and rise.
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Recipe Card #5
The Baker's Song
Whisking sugar, sifting flour,
Baking sweet things hour by hour.
Cinnamon swirls and golden pies,
Steam floats up to greeting skies.
Bakers sing and cookies glow,
In this sweet world made of dough.
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Recipe Card #6
The Case for Pie
It is a fact that students work harder when they have positive rewards. That is why our school cafeteria must start "Pie Fridays." By serving a sweet slice of pie at the end of every week, test scores will rise and Friday attendance will increase!
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Recipe Card #7
The Magic Ingredient
Deep within the flour sack, young baker Leo felt something hard and sparkling. He pulled out a crystal of sugar that glowed with a soft, pulsing neon-blue light. When he dropped it into the muffin batter, the bowl began to float in mid-air!
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Recipe Card #8
Five-Star Bakery Review
If you want high-quality bread, do not buy it from a grocery store shelf. The Crusty Loaf Bakery serves fresh, hand-kneaded sourdough that is infinitely healthier and tastier. I highly recommend you support this local shop instead of big supermarkets!
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Recipe Card #9
Ancient Bakeries
Historians have found that ancient Egyptians built large public bakeries over 4,000 years ago. They ground wheat into flour using heavy flat stones, mixed it with wild yeast, and baked flat loaves in clay pots buried in hot sand and embers.
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Sort your cards: Persuade (#1, #6, #8), Inform (#2, #4, #9), Entertain (#3, #5, #7)
PURPOSE PIE CARDS
