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Year 6 · English · Writing for different purposes · Lesson 1

Purpose, audience and form

Planning writing with purpose, audience and form: the four main purposes, matching text types and features, and choosing formality.

Whiteboard video lesson: Purpose, audience and form

13-minute video lesson

Teaching, worked examples and 20 practice questions solved step by step.

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What your child will learn

  • Identify purpose, audience and form
  • Match text types to purposes
  • Choose suitable features
  • Adapt formality to audience

The method

  1. Purpose.
  2. Audience.
  3. Form.
  4. Features.

Key words: purpose, audience, form, entertain, inform, persuade, instruct.

Worked examples

The first three practice questions from the lesson, with every step.

Question 1

What does ‘purpose’ mean in writing?

  1. Step 1: Why

Answer: the reason you are writing

Question 2

What does ‘audience’ mean?

  1. Step 1: Who

Answer: the people who will read it

Question 3

What does ‘form’ mean?

  1. Step 1: Type

Answer: the type of text, e.g. letter, report