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Functional Skills English - Reading: Identify the Purpose of the Text December 2017

During this session, you will:

Demonstrate an understanding of the purpose

• f a piece of text

Consider how writers communicate the meaning

• f a piece of text

Understanding the Purpose of a text

Look at the whole text Read the text and consider… Decide who the text has been written for

How writers communicate meaning

What is the purpose of the text? What it tells the readers (fact, opinion, advice, evidence etc.). How does the way the text is written help it to achieve its purpose?

You will now break out into groups and read the text, before completing the questions together.

Group Activity

Be test ready!

Don’t make assumptions about a writer’s purpose. You must find evidence in the text to support your ideas, for example, in the way that ideas and information are presented. For top marks, you need to do more than just say what techniques the writer has used, You must also explain how they help to convey the meaning of the text to the reader.

In this session we have…

Demonstrated an understanding of the purpose

• f a piece of text

Considered how writers communicate the meaning of a piece of text

I will email each of you your independent work. Please take a photo of your work and email back to me when you have finished, (or ask me for my WhatsApp number). You can also hand your work to your coach/assessor.

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