The Writing Texts for Different Audiences PowerPoint is a helpful teaching tool to scaffold student understanding through explicit teaching, examples, and group activities. Students are introduced to the term audience by listing and sharing various types of audiences and defining the term.   Students then explore and identify formal and informal writing styles through examples and activities. With this understanding, students are then asked to create a letter for two different audiences and an advert for two different audiences. Task reflections by students may then include the identification of the features of informal and formal writing in their texts, and why they chose to write in that style for each audience.   Writing Texts for Different Audiences Worksheets have been created to complement the learning in this PowerPoint, with templates provided for brainstorming different audience types and identifying formal and informal writing styles. Writing templates are also provided for practise writing for various audiences.