Author's Purpose Text-Coding Reading Passages. 21 fun and engaging NO PREP AUTHOR'S PURPOSE PASSAGES inviting students to text code clues as they read and to explain their thinking in complete sentences. Author's Purposes include: To Persuade, to Inform, and to Entertain. The P.I.E acronym is used to help reinforce author's purpose skills in the included posters. _____________________________________________________________________• NOTE: This resource now has a GOOGLE SLIDES version, making it