A case can be made for teachers to use audience-oriented teaching strategies that encourage children to write for a wide range of readers. Even so, questions remain about how writers, especially student writers, actually learn to consider an audience of readers when they write. Research suggests that a developmental trend exists in which children gradually develop a sense of audience in their writing. Other studies suggest that teachers can develop effective audience-oriented writing strategies only if they think carefully about their own role as an audience for their students' writing. The ERIC database contains numerous ideas for assignments and strategies that (1) encourage students to write for a range of audiences; (2) provide opportunities to receive responses from these audiences; and (3) help students learn the value of writing as a process of communication. (MS)