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.
Understand that texts can take many forms such as signs, books and digital texts
Identify some differences between imaginative and informative 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 differences between imaginative and informative texts
Recognises some different purposes for writing and that own texts differ in various ways
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
Some students may benefit from working in a small guided group with a shared fiction and non-fiction text to look at.
Students can place post-it notes on features in the books that prove if they are fiction or non-fiction.