Audience and Purpose in Writing

Year 6 EnglishWriting3 pages

About this worksheet

Three pages on audience, purpose and editing for Year 6 writing. Pupils start by naming the purpose and audience of three short extracts: a swooping dragon, a plea to stop a library closure and a set of battery instructions. Next they rewrite a flat paragraph about a park with stronger vocabulary and linking words. The last task is planning a formal letter asking the Headteacher for an eco-garden. Suggested answers sit under the first table. The work follows England National Curriculum writing composition objectives.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Writing - composition

“Identifying the audience for and purpose of the writing, selecting the appropriate form and using other similar writing as models for their own”

Question 1 matches the dragon, library and battery extracts to a purpose and an audience.

Writing - composition

“Noting and developing initial ideas, drawing on reading and research where necessary”

Question 3 asks for three arguments before any drafting starts.

Writing - composition

“Selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary, understanding how such choices can change and enhance meaning”

Question 2 asks pupils to replace words like nice with more precise ones.

Writing - composition

“Using a wide range of devices to build cohesion within and across paragraphs”

Question 2 also asks for cohesive devices to join six short, choppy sentences.

Writing - composition

“Proposing changes to vocabulary, grammar and punctuation to enhance effects and clarify meaning”

The park rewrite is a full editing task on words and sentence links.

What's inside this worksheet

Identifying Audience and Purpose

Pupils read three extracts and decide if each one persuades, informs or entertains, and who would read it.

Power Up Your Paragraph

Pupils rewrite "The park is nice. It has tall trees." and the lines that follow, using words like picturesque and links such as However or As a result.

Planning a Persuasive Pitch

Pupils jot down three arguments for a letter asking the Headteacher to build an eco-garden in the school grounds.

How teachers use it

Start of a persuasion unit

Open with question 1. The library closure extract is a clear model of persuasive writing for adults.

Modelled write

Rewrite the park paragraph live on the board, thinking aloud about each change, then let pupils try their own.

Before letter writing

Set question 3 at the end of the lesson so pupils arrive at the next one with their eco-garden arguments ready.

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