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Text Feature Hunt

Text Feature Hunt
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Description

Use these worksheets to help students familiarise themselves with the features of non-fiction texts. Each worksheet includes a short non-fiction text about an adorable animal which will engage students. Students then use the colour guide to find the different text features of non-fiction texts.
 

Lesson Structure
  • Individual Activity
  • Rotations / Group Work
Curriculum Codes

AC9EFLY06 9

Create and participate in shared editing of short written texts to record and report ideas and events using some learnt vocabulary, basic sentence boundary punctuation and spelling some consonant–vowel–consonant words correctly

AC9EFLY03 9

Identify some differences between imaginative and informative texts

AC9EFLY01 9

Identify some familiar texts, such as stories and informative texts, and their purpose

ACELY1645 8.4

Identify some familiar texts and the contexts in which they are used

ACELY1648 8.4

Identify some differences between imaginative and informative texts

ACELY1652 8.4

Participate in shared editing of students’ own texts for meaning, spelling, capital letters and full stops

ACELY1654 8.4

Construct texts using software including word processing programs

ACELY1651 8.4

Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge

ENe-8B old

Demonstrates emerging skills and knowledge of texts to read and view, and shows developing awareness of purpose, audience and subject matter

ENe-7B old

Recognises some different purposes for writing and that own texts differ in various ways

ENe-2A old

Composes simple texts to convey an idea or message

ENe-3A old

Produces most lower case and upper case letters and uses digital technologies to construct texts

ENE-UARL-01 new

Understands and responds to literature read to them

ENE-RECOM-01 new

Comprehends independently read texts using background knowledge, word knowledge and understanding of how sentences connect

ENE-CWT-01 new

Creates written texts that include at least 2 related ideas and correct simple sentences

ENE-SPELL-01 new

Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies to spell taught familiar and high-frequency words when creating texts

ENE-VOCAB-01 new

Understands and effectively uses Tier 1 words and Tier 2 words in familiar contexts

ENE-HANDW-01 new

Produces all lower-case and upper-case letters to create texts

VCELY151

Identify some familiar texts and the contexts in which they are used

VCELY154

Identify some differences between imaginative and informative texts

VCELY161

Participate in shared editing of students’ own texts for meaning, spelling, capital letters and full stops

VCELY160

Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge

VCELY163

Construct texts using software including word processing programs

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