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Grade 4 Reading & Writing · World 8: Spotlight Stage · Level 63
Audience and Purpose
Who the text is for and how its purpose builds from the beginning to the end.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 63
- Welcome to the Spotlight Stage! Every text has an audience, the people it's for, and a purpose, the reason it was written.
- Read this letter. Who is it for, and what does it want?
- It's for the principal: it begins Dear Principal Ortiz. Its purpose is to persuade.
- Watch the purpose build. The beginning names a problem. The middle gives reasons and evidence. The ending asks for something: please let us plant a garden!
- The audience shapes the writing too. A story for little kids uses short words that repeat. A camp guide for new campers explains what to pack and where to go.
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:
- 4.T.C.1.a — Determine audience and identify the development of the purpose across a text. (I)
- 4.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)