Purpose and Audience

Entertain, inform, or persuade, and who the writer was writing for.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 65

Welcome to Speak Up Stage! Every author has a purpose: a reason for writing.
To entertain: tell a story, a joke, or a poem that's fun to read. Once upon a time, a pig named Pickles wanted to fly!
To inform: teach facts. A spider has eight legs. To persuade: try to get you to do or believe something. Come to the Spring Fair! Don't miss it!
Authors also write for an audience: the people who will read it. A letter to Grandma sounds different from a note to the whole school.

Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:

3.T.C.1.a — Determine the purpose (e.g., entertain, inform, persuade) and target audience of a text. (I)
3.P.ST.2.a — Develop and apply knowledge of author, audience, and context to discern and establish the purpose of texts being interpreted or constructed and to evaluate the extent to which those texts achieve those purposes. (I/C)