Review
Before you start writing, be clear about your audience and purpose . This will help you to choose the best type of text to write. The purpose is the job your writing will do, for example, to advertise, to describe or to give instructions. The audience for a text is the person or people who is/are going to read it, for example, school children or travellers. Writing process 1 Look around your school. Find four signs or notices each with a different audience and purpose. What are the audience and the purpose of each one? 2 Read the chart below. What format/type of writing would you use for each text? Example: 1 – a bar graph or pie chart
Text Audience Purpose 1 Children
Record the results of a survey into favourite foods
2 Team
Inform them of the dates and times of netball practice for the next term Ask for a contribution of books for the school library
members
3 A local
bookstore Children
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Tell them how to make a kite
5 Park visitors
Tell them about the rules and regulations
6 Local people Tell them about a fundraising fish fry at the local church hall Getting ideas How would you get ideas for each of these topics? Match topics to ways of getting ideas. Topics: • Life without the internet • Reduce, reuse, recycle in school • The job I would like to do • A great day out Getting ideas • search the internet • visit the library • talk to parents and grandparents
• visit the tourist office • interview someone • brainstorm • use graphic organisers (e.g. story map) • draw on my experience • use my imagination
• What makes me happy • How Monkey beat Anansi • Cat or dog? Which is the best pet?
• Students should be familiar with all of the stages in the writing process. See page 163. • Getting ideas: Tell students they can apply more than one method to each topic and use each method more than once. Direct them to use the Graphic Organisers on pages 164–168 for getting ideas and to help them with planning.
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