1. CfBT Education Services
Workshop D
Writers’ Purpose and Viewpoint
Relating Texts to Social, Cultural and
Historical Traditions
Achieving Level 6 Reading

2. CfBT Education Services
AF6 Indentify and comment on writers’
purposes and viewpoints, and the overall effect of
the text on the reader
Expectations of the level 6 reader:
• Use detailed evidence from a text to identify the writer’s
purpose
• Give detailed evidence for your opinions at word, sentence
and text levels
• Explain writers’ viewpoints using detailed textual evidence
• Understand a text’s effect on the reader and explain how
the writer has created it
Explaining the effect of the text on the reader and how
the writer achieves it

3. CfBT Education Services
AF7 Relate texts to their social, cultural and
historical traditions
Expectations of the level 6 reader:
• Recognise textual conventions
• Recognise how textual conventions can be combined to
create a new literary form
• Discuss how ideas in texts are treated differently in
different times and places
When we read, we are not just reading texts, we are
reading the society and traditions they come from. The
contexts of the texts help us to understand a range of
the times, places and cultures.