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I Know All About Text Types

I Know All About Text Types
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Description

This worksheet allows students to demonstrate their understanding of fiction and non-fiction texts through drawing and making choices from visual prompts.

Provide students with a range of fiction and non-fiction texts to choose from. As a class, discuss the books and sort them into fiction and non-fiction piles based on their features. Students can then select one of each book before completing the sheet.
 

Suitable for
  • Relief Teachers
Lesson Structure
  • Individual Activity
  • Class Activity
Curriculum Codes

AC9EFLA03 9

Understand that texts can take many forms such as signs, books and digital texts

AC9EFLY03 9

Identify some differences between imaginative and informative texts

ACELA1430 8.4

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

ACELY1648 8.4

Identify some differences between imaginative and informative texts

ENe-7B old

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

ENE-UARL-01 new

Understands and responds to literature read to them

ENE-PRINT-01 new

Tracks written text from left to right and from top to bottom of the page and identifies visual and spatial features of print

ENE-RECOM-01 new

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

VCELA141

Understand that texts can take many forms, and that imaginative and informative texts have different purposes

VCELY154

Identify some differences between imaginative and informative texts

Differentiation

Modifications

Some students may benefit from working in a small guided group with a shared fiction and non-fiction text to look at.
 

EXTENSIONS

Students can place post-it notes on features in the books that prove if they are fiction or non-fiction.
 

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