Year 2 English · AC9E2LY03

Identify the purpose and audience of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts

Imaginative texts entertain or explore ideas, informative texts explain or provide facts, and persuasive texts try to influence an audience

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1. Outcome Overview & Core Concepts

Imaginative texts entertain or explore ideas, informative texts explain or provide facts, and persuasive texts try to influence an audience.

Learning target: identify the purpose and audience of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts

Big idea: Identify who a text is for and what it is designed to do

Learning routine: Identify text type → Ask why → Ask for whom → Find evidence

Key conceptTeach from the board

2. Subject-Specific Content & Key Examples

Match text type, purpose and audience

story → entertain readersreport → inform learnersposter → persuade familieschoices suit audience

Use language, structure and images as evidence.

Notice audience choices

young childrenclassmatesfamiliescommunity visitors

Vocabulary, detail and tone change for different audiences.

Sort and notice

Sort sample texts by imaginative, informative and persuasive purpose.

Guided practice

  1. Sort and notice — Sort sample texts by imaginative, informative and persuasive purpose.
  2. Build or improve — Rewrite one message for two audiences and compare the language choices.
  3. Explain your choice — Use the words purpose, audience, text type to explain what you changed and why.
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AC9E2LY03 - Identify the purpose and audience of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts
Example 1

story → entertain readers report → inform learners poster → persuade families choices suit audience

Example 2

young children classmates families community visitors

Example 3

Match text type, purpose and audience story → entertain readers report → inform learners poster → persuade families choices suit audience Use language, structure and images as evidence.

Example 4

Notice audience choices young children classmates families community visitors Vocabulary, detail and tone change for different audiences.

Curriculum examplesCurriculum examples

Curriculum Coverage & Elaborations

The content description is the required target. The elaborations below are taught as examples and contexts, not as disconnected checklist wording.

  • E1: identifying the purpose of texts written by First Nations Australian authors (teaching context)
  • E2: identifying the audience of advertisements and signs
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Revision Notes

  • Remember: Identify who a text is for and what it is designed to do
  • Use the routine: Identify text type → Ask why → Ask for whom → Find evidence
  • Before answering: point to the clue in the spoken words, written sentence, image, page layout or text purpose.
  • Self-check: change the example slightly and see whether the same reasoning still works.
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3. Common Student Misconceptions

  • Purpose equals topic: The topic is what the text is about; purpose is what it aims to do.
  • Guessing audience from pictures only: Use vocabulary, detail, design and context together.
  • Answer without evidence: Point to the word, sentence, image, sound pattern or text feature that supports the answer.

Practice Thought & Formative Assessment

Use a fresh, code-aligned example. The student should show the exact word, sound, sentence, image feature, audience clue or text evidence that supports the answer.

Quick checks

  • What is an audience?
  • What is the purpose of a report?
  • How does persuasion differ?
  • Can two texts share a topic but have different purposes?

Mastery evidence

  • Identify imaginative purpose
  • Identify informative purpose
  • Identify persuasive purpose
  • Identify audience
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1. Outcome Overview & Core Concepts

Imaginative texts entertain or explore ideas, informative texts explain or provide facts, and persuasive texts try to influence an audience.

Learning target: identify the purpose and audience of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts

Big idea: Identify who a text is for and what it is designed to do

Learning routine: Identify text type → Ask why → Ask for whom → Find evidence

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