Encourage critical thinking with these vibrant magnifying glass templates! Teachers can print them on thick cards or let students cut them out. Students use them to explore texts, identifying features of fictional and non-fiction texts- a fun and interactive way to enhance literacy skills.
Explore how language can be used for appreciating texts and providing reasons for preferences
Identify how texts across the curriculum are organised differently and use language features depending on purposes
Identify how similar topics and information are presented in different types of texts
Explore how texts are organised according to their purpose, such as to recount, narrate, express opinion, inform, report and explain
Describe how texts across the curriculum use different language features and structures relevant to their purpose
Identify the purpose of layout features in print and digital texts and the words used for navigation
Understand that the purposes texts serve shape their structure in predictable ways
Identify language that can be used for appreciating texts and the qualities of people and things
Understand that different types of texts have identifiable text structures and language features that help the text serve its purpose
Discuss different texts on a similar topic, identifying similarities and differences between the texts
Understand how different types of texts vary in use of language choices, depending on their purpose and context (for example, tense and types of sentences)
Identify the features of online texts that enhance navigation
Identifies how language use in their own writing differs according to their purpose, audience and subject matter
Recognises a range of purposes and audiences for spoken language and recognises organisational patterns and features of predictable spoken texts
Plans, composes and reviews a small range of simple texts for a variety of purposes on familiar topics for known readers and viewers
Identifies and compares different kinds of texts when reading and viewing and shows an understanding of purpose, audience and subject matter
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions
Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas
Communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting
Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Builds knowledge and use of Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, and by defining and analysing words
Understand that the purposes texts serve shape their structure in predictable ways
Identify language that can be used for appreciating texts and the qualities of people and things
Understand that different types of texts have identifiable text structures and language features that help the text serve its purpose
Discuss different texts on a similar topic, identifying similarities and differences between the texts
Understand how different types of texts vary in use of language choices, depending on their purpose, audience and context, including tense and types of sentences
Identify the features of online texts that enhance navigation
Have students take pictures of the different features they find within texts.