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Information Investigator
1 Pre & Primary Essentials Worksheets English Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas Text Structure & Organisation Analysing, Interpreting & Evaluating 1 Page

Information Investigator

This basic Information Report planner template is useful when students are researching information for an information report on any topic. It provides space for the topic and 4 different facts.

When exploring non-fiction texts, use this template for students to collect their own information about a shared or student choice topic. This template can be used as a reading response or to plan writing for an information report.
 

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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.

Curriculum alignment

EN1-7B old Identifies how language use in their own writing differs according to their purpose, audience and subject matter 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
VCELA176 Understand that the purposes texts serve shape their structure in predictable ways VCELA180 Compare different kinds of images in narrative and informative texts and discuss how they contribute to meaning 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.

Differentiation

Modifications

There is enough space to allow students to draw and label their ideas rather than write.
 

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