This product is a great activity for students to reinforce or enhance their author’s purpose skills. This activity was designed in a way for students to work in teams and compete against other teams in the class. This author’s purpose activity was designed to be play in teams of 3-6 students. The students work together to identify the author’s purpose of the stories, titles, ads, etc. listed on the pie pans. Prior to the start of this activity the actual pie pieces that have (persuade, inform