Same purpose, different audience
Recognise how texts with similar purposes are created differently for different audiences, by comparing word choice, sentence length, images and layout
Lesson
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“Same purpose, different audience means practising the idea at the table with a short text or prompt and one clear check. We will demo once, then your child tries.”
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- Sentence strips or sticky notes
- Pencil
Extra for the adult
Worked example. In “The dogs run,” adult underlines the plural noun “dogs.”
Optional challenge. For Same purpose, different audience, add one harder example after success.
What to notice. Keep one parent note: examples tried; results; support used. This session samples Same purpose, different audience, not mastery.
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Same purpose, different audience means practising the idea at the table with a short text or prompt and one clear check. We will demo once, then your child tries.
Materials: Sentence strips or sticky notes; Pencil. 1. Say the goal of Same purpose, different audience in plain words once. 2. Adult shows one sentence and marks the target grammar feature once. 3. Child finds or fixes the feature in three short sentences and reads each aloud. 4. Fresh check: one fresh sentence mark or fix. Record and stop. Done: three correctly marked or fixed sentences. Proof: parent note of examples and results. Stop: End after the fresh check; keep optional challenge for another day.
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Aesop's Fables
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Aesop's Fables supports Same purpose, different audience. An adult previews and guides; this is a learning page, not a scored quiz.
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Public Library of Congress page. An anonymous GET on 2026-11-12 returned HTTP 200 with no login or payment prompt for this URL. Opening the link does not save practice or assess mastery. An adult should preview and guide the learner.
Library of Congress. “Aesop's Fables.” External page; Gakuva does not copy, host, embed, or redistribute materials.
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Check understanding
- Compare two information texts about volcanoes, one for young children and one for adults, and list the differences in words and pictures
- Explain how an invitation to a friend's party differs from an invitation to a school assembly for parents
- Identify who each of two ads for the same product is aimed at and point to the features that show it
“If your child sees two ads or books on the same topic — one for little kids and one for grown-ups — can they spot how they're written differently?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- English
- Domain
- Reading Comprehension
- Age range
- Ages 8–9
Standards