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Instructions for/to the students: Read the poem carefully.

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You can use either. If you want to check if a phrase is in common use, try typing it into Google, and taking note of the number of results found.

Use quotation marks around the phrase like this "instructions for".

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Thanks, Contrex.

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Yoong Liat wrote:

Instructions for/to the students: Read the poem carefully.

If the professor is standing in front of the class, she may give
instructions to the students. If however, she is not standing in front of the class, and instead has prepared a "handout" to be picked up at her office mailbox, she has intructions for the students.

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If the professor is standing in front of the class, she may say, "Students, I have some instructions for you". She might then give the instructions to the students.

However, addressing what Yoong Liat was asking, she might write or print on papers given to the students: "Instructions for the students: Read the poem carefully." She might equally well write "Instructions to the students: Read the poem carefully." Both are correct.

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