- Definition
The "audience" refers to the people watching a play or performance. Sometimes, everyone takes turns being both the actor and the watcher, even when they're pretending to be a character.
When your child reads their story aloud to you, you are the audience they are speaking to.
How to teach this in 30 seconds
Try this analogy: Think of an audience like the people sitting on the couch watching a kid put on a little show.
Ask your child: When you tell a story, who do you imagine is listening?
Common mix-up: Kids often think the audience is just 'people watching.' The key idea is that the audience changes how we speak, act, or write.
Examples
- Kids acting out a scene while classmates watch.
- People watching a show on TV are the audience for that show.
audience is a term used in Ontario’s Kindergarten to Grade 8 curriculum.
Where this shows up
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