Formal and Informal Language Sort
This worksheet asks students to sort language; deciding whether the statements have been written in a formal or informal style. This worksheet could be used as an explicit teaching activity, independent activity, during literacy rotations or a guided language group. This resource is part of the Degrees of Language Formality Unit Plan.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to recognise that we can use language differently with our friends, family and in various cultural contexts, e.g. periods of silence, but that language is typically formal in texts and in written form.
Curriculum alignment
EN3-1A
old
Communicates effectively for a variety of audiences and purposes using increasingly challenging topics, ideas, issues and language forms and features
EN3-OLC-01
new
Communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness, by interacting and presenting, and by analysing and evaluating for understanding
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
Differentiation
Extensions
Students can add their own sentences to each style of writing, identify and style of writing according to features included
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