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Lesson Plan
New Zealand Ministry of Education

Nz Ministry of Education: Hearwaves

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students analyze the language, style, content, advertisements, of radio stations and determine their target audiences. then students create their own radio station targeting a specific audience including news, advertisements, stories,...
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Article
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Significance of Audience Analysis: Target Populace [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a 14-page PDF article concerning audience analysis for a persuasive speech. It includes the importance of understanding your audience, methods used to analyze a specific audience, and the five layer of any given audience alalysis.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Writing to a Particular Audience and Purpose English Iii Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn various rhetorical strategies you can use in writing for a particular audience and purpose.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Organization Appropriate to Purpose, Audience, and Context

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will be able to write an essay that is organized appropriate to audience, purpose, and context.
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Handout
Colorado State University

Colorado State Writing Center: Adapting to Your Audience

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A clear guide to understanding the audience for your writing, this site leads you through steps to help you identify your audience, then structure your writing to meet that audience's needs and expectations. Use links on the right....
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Activity
Other

Writing Scientific Reports

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial site provides links to articles about writing a scientific report or essay as well as to sample essays.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Determining Your Audience

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
On this website you will find information, two presentations, and a practice worksheet explaining how to decide the audience of a written piece and how to appeal to an intended or general audience in an original text....
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Teaching Audience in Interactive Writing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Lesson which teaches elementary students the importance and significance of keeping the audience in mind when writing. Students write invitation letters and perform extension activities while learning these concepts. Good resource.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Writing for an Audience

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A seven-slide presentation discussing the importance of writing to an audience in order to establish tone, strengthen word choice, and determine what supporting details to include.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Audience and Writing Style

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow tutorial focuses on adjusting writing style to fit the audience. It looks at audience characteristics and discusses how to adapt the vocabulary, sentence style, and tone to fit them. It provides an example using the topic...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revising for Organization for Purpose, Audience, and Context

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising the organization of an essay appropriate to purpose, audience, and context. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.5 Develop and strengthen...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Organization Appropriate to Purpose, Audience, and Context

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Write an essay that is organized appropriate to audience, purpose, and context.
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: The Importance of Audience Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on analyzing your audience including the benefits of understanding your audience, what to look for, how to identify with your audience, and tips for the speaker.
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Contextual Factors to Consider

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on contextual factors to consider when analyzing your audience including physical contexts, values, beliefs, attitudes, and needs, audience opinion of you and your topic, and audience knowledge of your topic.
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Adapting to Your Audience

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on adapting your speech to your audience including analyzing your audience using direct observation, interviews, surveys, or Likert rating scales and then apply knowledge about the audience to adjust the message...
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Speaking in the Real World

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on providing practical tips for speaking in a non-academic setting such as a wedding, charity event, or interview.
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Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Identifying an Audience

For Students 9th - 10th
This article explains the importance of identifying the audience for a research paper including a list of questions beginning researchers might ask themselves to better understand who their audience really is.
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Article
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Skills: Introduction to Building Common Ground

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This introduction discusses the need for researching your audience and learn strategies to find common ground.
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Skills: Audience Awareness

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on audience awareness by recognizing and evaluating rhetorical approaches to building common ground. It also provides an example.
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Contextual Factors to Consider

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this Boundless Communication presentation, students will learn about contexts to consider when preparing a speech including physical, the psychology of audience, audience opinion of you and topic, and audience knowledge of the topic.
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: The Importance of Audience Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The first question you should ask yourself, before you begin crafting your speech, is this: "Who is my audience?" As you begin to answer this question for yourself, here are some key elements to consider as you begin to outline and...
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Handout
University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina Writing Center Handouts: Audience

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Identifying and then writing appropriately for a specific audience is one of the most difficult writing tasks for many student writers. This handout explains how to address these two challenges and gives some concrete suggestions to help...
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Activity
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Revising for a Different Audience [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
An activity where students are asked to write for a specific audience. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.5 Develop and strengthen writing
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Handout
University of Washington

University of Washington: Audience Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A discussion of audience analysis that examines demographics, disposition, and level of knowledge.