These eye-catching posters will help your students to learn about the author’s purpose.

The posters use the mnemonic PIE’ED, which stands for persuade, inform, entertain, explain and describe. These are the main purposes of texts, and a poster is provided for each one. The posters include a definition, an example text and helpful text-type images.

The posters are available in colour or black and white. You might like to print them on A4 paper, reduce them to A5 size or enlarge them to A3 depending on intended purpose. After discussing the posters with your students, you can display them on the classroom wall as a handy prompt.