Writing for Different Audiences and Purposes

Writing for Different Audiences and Purposes: English Teaching Resource

‘Writing for Different Audiences and Purposes’ is an English PowerPoint presentation designed to teach pupils how audience and purpose affect the composition of a text. Content includes:

1. How audience affects writing.
2. Writing a postcard for different audiences task.
3. Writing for a range of audiences task.
4. Explanation of the purpose of a text.
5. Identifying the purpose of different texts task.
6. Match the text with its purpose task.
7. Texts with mixed purposes.
8. Exploring ‘Horrible Histories’ task.
9. Two accompanying worksheets.

‘Writing for Different Audiences and Purposes’ can be edited so teachers can adapt the resource to meet their individual teaching requirements.