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English Unit: Informative Texts
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English Unit: Informative Texts

This unit is progressive in nature and designed to introduce students to informative texts as well as the structure of information reports. There are a range of games, activities, worksheets and templates that can be used as non-fiction text responses or during informative writing lessons.

Whole class introduction, teacher-led activities, independent worksheets, rotations, assessment. Can be used during Reading, Writing or Integrated Units.
 

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Learning goals

  • We are learning to recognise that texts have different features and purposes, e.g. recount, narrate, express opinion, inform, report and explain.
  • We are learning to identify that texts serve different purposes and that this affects how they are organised.
  • We are learning to understand the different purposes of images in various text types and how they contribute to meaning.
  • We are learning to understand the different purposes of images in different text types and how they contribute to meaning.
  • We are learning to describe some similarities and differences between imaginative, informative and persuasive texts.
  • We are learning to recognise that texts serve different purposes and they each have different features.
  • We are learning to create, re-read and edit short written and multimodal texts to report on a topic, express an opinion or recount an event using capital letters, punctuation and correct spelling.
  • We are learning to create texts for a purpose that show our understanding of the connection between writing, speech and images.

Curriculum alignment

EN1-7B old Identifies how language use in their own writing differs according to their purpose, audience and subject matter EN1-3A old Composes texts using letters of consistent size and slope and uses digital technologies EN1-2A old Plans, composes and reviews a small range of simple texts for a variety of purposes on familiar topics for known readers and viewers EN1-OLC-01 new Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions EN1-UARL-01 new Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose EN1-RECOM-01 new Comprehends independently read texts that require sustained reading by activating background and word knowledge, connecting and understanding sentences and whole text, and monitoring for meaning EN1-HANDW-01 new Uses a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style, and digital technology, including word-processing applications, when creating texts EN1-CWT-01 new Plans, creates and revises texts written for different purposes, including paragraphs, using knowledge of vocabulary, text features and sentence structure EN1-PHOKW-01 new Uses initial and extended phonics, including vowel digraphs, trigraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts EN1-VOCAB-01 new Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas EN1-SPELL-01 new Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling words in a range of writing contexts
VCELY188 Describe some differences between imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, and identify the audience of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts VCELA180 Compare different kinds of images in narrative and informative texts and discuss how they contribute to meaning VCELY194 Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements VCELY195 Reread student's own texts and discuss possible changes to improve meaning, spelling and punctuation VCELY197 Construct texts that incorporate supporting images using software including word processing programs VCELA176 Understand that the purposes texts serve shape their structure in predictable ways

Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.

Differentiation

Modifications

Differentiated activities included.
 

Extensions

Differentiated activities included.
 

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