Help your students build confident, respectful and purposeful communication skills with our Identifying Influences on Language Worksheets! This resource is designed to help students explore how their language choices are shaped by audience, relationships and social context. Through structured scenarios, students practise adapting their tone, word choice and formality to suit different people and situations - developing a deeper understanding of how we communicate effectively in everyday life.

Each worksheet presents realistic social scenarios and prompts students to respond in ways that reflect thoughtful language use. Students practise writing responses to different audiences—such as a teacher, friend, parent or teammate - and reflect on why their communication might shift based on the relationship and context. This process helps students build empathy, awareness and a greater sense of intentionality in both written and spoken communication.

Identifying Influences on Language Worksheets are ideal for middle primary students and support literacy outcomes alongside social and emotional learning. Whether used in health lessons, writing units or oral language tasks, this resource provides a meaningful opportunity to develop language awareness and communication confidence.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• ✅ Understand how audience, relationship and context affect language choices
• ✅ Practise adjusting tone and vocabulary based on social situation
• ✅ Reflect on respectful and appropriate communication in different settings
• ✅ Build empathy and awareness through language-based tasks
• ✅ Strengthen writing and speaking skills by tailoring messages for specific people

What’s Included:

• Scenario-based worksheets with tailored response prompts
• Reflection questions to support deeper thinking
• Space for student writing or paired discussion
• Flexible format suitable for group or independent work

Materials Needed:

• Printed worksheets (one per student or pair)
• Pencils or pens for writing responses
• Optional: speech bubbles or comic strip templates for extension tasks

How to Use:

1. Read each scenario aloud and discuss the audience types together as a class.
2. Students write a response for each person listed, adjusting their tone and vocabulary accordingly.
3. Use the reflection section to prompt class or small group discussions around audience awareness.
4. Encourage students to share their responses and compare differences in tone, structure and formality.

Ideas for Classroom Use:

• 💡 Use in writing lessons to introduce or reinforce audience awareness
• 💡 Pair with oral language tasks such as speeches or role play
• 💡 Connect to respectful relationships or digital citizenship units
• 💡 Assign as an independent or small group activity during literacy block
• 💡 Revisit across the term to reinforce language choices in different text types

Top Teacher Tips:

• 💛 Model with role play and sentence stems to support developing writers
• 💛 Display a vocabulary wall with terms like tone, formal, casual, audience and context
• 💛 Scaffold with oral discussion before students begin writing
• 💛 Differentiate by adjusting the number or complexity of responses required

Identifying Influences on Language Worksheets offer a practical and thoughtful way to develop language awareness, respectful communication and audience understanding - supporting strong literacy skills and social development in every classroom.