A card sorting activity that will assist students when learning to identify the difference between what might be real and what is imagined.
These cards can be used as a whole class, small group or individual activity to sort into real or make-believe categories.
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
Students could choose a card to use as a writing prompt when learning to write different text types.