This worksheet asks students to sort language; deciding whether the statements have been written in a formal or informal style. This worksheet could be used as an explicit teaching activity, independent activity, during literacy rotations or a guided language group. This resource is part of the Degrees of Language Formality Unit Plan.
Understand that language is selected for social contexts and that it helps to signal social roles and relationships
Understand that patterns of language interaction vary across social contexts and types of texts and that they help to signal social roles and relationships
Communicates effectively for a variety of audiences and purposes using increasingly challenging topics, ideas, issues and language forms and features
Communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness, by interacting and presenting, and by analysing and evaluating for understanding
Understand that patterns of language interaction vary across social contexts and types of texts and that they help to signal social roles and relationships
Students can add their own sentences to each style of writing, identify and style of writing according to features included