Five Finger Retell
These 5 Finger Retell Hands give students a visual prompt to help them retell the main ideas within a fiction or non-fiction text. This will help them to identify the differences between these text types.
Students can decorate and cut out each hand which can then be laminated. Students can use these hands as prompts when orally retelling the main ideas in a fiction or non-fiction text. They can also be sent home to give students and parents a prompt when discussing texts read at home.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to understand texts can be in many forms such as signs, books and digital texts.
- We are learning to understand texts can be in many forms and that stories and informative texts have different purposes.
- We are learning to identify some differences between imaginative and informative texts, i.e. what is real or imaginary.
- 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.
Curriculum alignment
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
AC9E1LY03
9
Describe some similarities and differences between imaginative, informative and persuasive 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
ACELY1658
8.4
Describe some differences between imaginative informative and persuasive texts
ENe-7B
old
Recognises some different purposes for writing and that own texts differ in various ways
EN1-7B
old
Identifies how language use in their own writing differs according to their purpose, audience and subject matter
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
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
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
VCELY188
Describe some differences between imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, and identify the audience of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
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