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Kristy Davies

Text Structure: Purpose, Audience and Effect

Grades: 5th Grade, 6th Grade
Subjects: English Language Arts, Reading

Student Instructions

Students will learn to identify specific structural and language features within types of text. Students will learn to identify genre in a range of imaginative, persuasive and informative texts. Purpose and effect: Review student understanding of purpose and audience (see Stage 3 Purpose and audience for further activities). Teacher models analysing a text extract for purpose, audience and genre: See example attached. Students are given example extracts of a range of texts (or see Appendix 1) to determine the purpose, audience and the effect on the reader.

Teacher Notes (not visible to students)

Adapted from the NSW Department of Education Literacy and Numeracy Teaching Strategies- Reading Text Structure Stage 3

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