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Text Feature Finders - Colour

Text Feature Finders - Colour
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Description

Encourage critical thinking with these vibrant magnifying glass templates! Teachers can print them on thick cards or let students cut them out. Students use them to explore texts, identifying features of fictional and non-fiction texts- a fun and interactive way to enhance literacy skills.
 

Curriculum Codes

AC9E2LA02 9

Explore how language can be used for appreciating texts and providing reasons for preferences

AC9E2LA03 9

Identify how texts across the curriculum are organised differently and use language features depending on purposes

AC9E2LY01 9

Identify how similar topics and information are presented in different types of texts

AC9E1LA03 9

Explore how texts are organised according to their purpose, such as to recount, narrate, express opinion, inform, report and explain

AC9E3LA03 9

Describe how texts across the curriculum use different language features and structures relevant to their purpose

AC9E3LA05 9

Identify the purpose of layout features in print and digital texts and the words used for navigation

ACELA1447 8.4

Understand that the purposes texts serve shape their structure in predictable ways

ACELA1462 8.4

Identify language that can be used for appreciating texts and the qualities of people and things

ACELA1463 8.4

Understand that different types of texts have identifiable text structures and language features that help the text serve its purpose

ACELY1665 8.4

Discuss different texts on a similar topic, identifying similarities and differences between the texts

ACELA1478 8.4

Understand how different types of texts vary in use of language choices, depending on their purpose and context (for example, tense and types of sentences)

ACELA1790 8.4

Identify the features of online texts that enhance navigation

EN1-7B old

Identifies how language use in their own writing differs according to their purpose, audience and subject matter

EN1-6B old

Recognises a range of purposes and audiences for spoken language and recognises organisational patterns and features of predictable spoken texts

EN1-2A old

Plans, composes and reviews a small range of simple texts for a variety of purposes on familiar topics for known readers and viewers

EN2-8B old

Identifies and compares different kinds of texts when reading and viewing and shows an understanding of purpose, audience and subject matter

EN1-OLC-01 new

Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions

EN1-UARL-01 new

Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose

EN1-VOCAB-01 new

Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas

EN2-OLC-01 new

Communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting

EN2-RECOM-01 new

Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension

EN2-VOCAB-01 new

Builds knowledge and use of Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, and by defining and analysing words

VCELA176

Understand that the purposes texts serve shape their structure in predictable ways

VCELA236

Identify language that can be used for appreciating texts and the qualities of people and things

VCELA212

Understand that different types of texts have identifiable text structures and language features that help the text serve its purpose

VCELY220

Discuss different texts on a similar topic, identifying similarities and differences between the texts

VCELA246

Understand how different types of texts vary in use of language choices, depending on their purpose, audience and context, including tense and types of sentences

VCELA247

Identify the features of online texts that enhance navigation

Differentiation

Modifications

Have students take pictures of the different features they find within texts.

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