5 Pre & Primary Essentials Worksheets English Language for Interacting With Others 1 Page

Formal or Informal Language?

This worksheet asks students to sort language; deciding whether it is 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 Formal and Informal Language 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

AC9E5LA01 9 Understand that language is selected for social contexts and that it helps to signal social roles and relationships ACELA1501 8.4 Understand that patterns of language interaction vary across social contexts and types of texts and that they help to signal social roles and relationships

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

VCELA334 Understand that patterns of language interaction vary across social contexts and types of texts and that they help to signal social roles and relationships

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

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