If you teach reading comprehension, chances are you teach author's purpose. Author's purpose is a critical part of teaching English Language Arts for middle school students. This set of 16 half-page, no-prep, author's purpose task cards will come in handy during your STAAR review or anytime you want to focus your instruction on author's purpose. This set does NOT ask questions using the PIE method (persuade, entertain, or inform) because that is not the way STAAR or other test prep asks author's