This presentation is an excellent way to introduce Informative Texts and Information Report writing to your class. The progressive presentation explains different types of informative texts as well as the difference between fact, fiction and opinion. Students will also learn about the basic structure and features of an information report.
Whole class introduction when exploring non-fiction texts and their features. Use the Information Report slides when teaching students to plan their own information reports. This presentation compliments the Australian Animal Information Report templates.
Explore how texts are organised according to their purpose, such as to recount, narrate, express opinion, inform, report and explain
Compare how images in different types of texts contribute to meaning
Describe some similarities and differences between imaginative, informative and persuasive texts
Understand that the purposes texts serve shape their structure in predictable ways
Compare different kinds of images in narrative and informative texts and discuss how they contribute to meaning
Describe some differences between imaginative informative and persuasive texts
Identifies how language use in their own writing differs according to their purpose, audience and subject matter
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions
Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose
Comprehends independently read texts that require sustained reading by activating background and word knowledge, connecting and understanding sentences and whole text, and monitoring for meaning
Understand that the purposes texts serve shape their structure in predictable ways
Compare different kinds of images in narrative and informative texts and discuss how they contribute to meaning
Describe some differences between imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, and identify the audience of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts