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Before you start to write, you need to identify

 your AUDIENCE.

 Read each paragraph and choose the correct audience.

** Be sure to click on the "x" in the corner of the pop up picture to close it!!   
 

 

          The nation's retailers got a  
    break in July as warm weather
    and heavy discounting lifted
    sales above expectations, even
    for struggling department
    stores.

 

a 4th grade student

an adult

price tag

          The Goo Goo Dolls with   
    special guest Sugar Ray, and
    REO Speedwagon and Styx are
    the final State Fair Grandstand
    concerts to be announced. They
    join a Grandstand lineup that
    includes Def Leppard, Bob
    Dylan, Alan Jackson, and Steely
    Dan.

 

a teenager   

a small child

concert crowd

 

    New Netherland was easy for
    the British to take over because
    it had a large harbor on the
    Atlantic Coast.  It was also
    bordered by other British
    colonies.

 

a small child

a teacher

ship

 


    The brown bear woke up from a
    deep sleep.  He was grumpy at
    first, but soon he was ready to
    go out and face the world!

 

a teenager

a small child

bear

 


    A fox once saw a crow fly off
    with a piece of cheese in its
    beak and settle on a branch of a
    tree.  "That's for me, as I am a
    Fox," said he, and he walked up
    to the foot of the tree.


an adult

a 4th grade student

fox


    Real Estate values have boomed
    recently due to the new
    commercial development in that
    area.  Real Estate speculators
    have been able to buy and sell
    properties making a profit on
    each transaction.
 

an adult 

a teenager

        house

   Remember...

   Identify your audience before you begin writing.

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