These simple display posters give a basic explanation of Fiction and Non-Fiction texts as well as provide a range of examples.
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Choose the option you prefer and display in the classroom for students to be able to refer to when learning about different text types.
Understand that texts can take many forms such as signs, books and digital texts
Identify some familiar texts, such as stories and informative texts, and their purpose
Identify some differences between imaginative and informative texts
Describe some similarities and differences between imaginative, informative and persuasive texts
Understand that texts can take many forms, can be very short (for example an exit sign) or quite long (for example an information book or a film) and that stories and informative texts have different purposes
Identify some familiar texts and the contexts in which they are used
Identify some differences between imaginative and informative texts
Describe some differences between imaginative informative and persuasive texts
Recognises some different purposes for writing and that own texts differ in various ways
Demonstrates emerging skills and knowledge of texts to read and view, and shows developing awareness of purpose, audience and subject matter
Identifies how language use in their own writing differs according to their purpose, audience and subject matter
Understands and responds to literature read to them
Tracks written text from left to right and from top to bottom of the page and identifies visual and spatial features of print
Comprehends independently read texts using background knowledge, word knowledge and understanding of how sentences connect
Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose
Understand that texts can take many forms, and that imaginative and informative texts have different purposes
Identify some familiar texts and the contexts in which they are used
Identify some differences between imaginative and informative texts
Describe some differences between imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, and identify the audience of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts