Fact or Opinion?
Informative texts contain facts.
Non-Fiction Text Features
Learning Intention: Understand how non-fiction text features help the reader find and understand information. Success Criteria: - We can locate different text features and correctly label these on our poster. - We can describe how the text features help the reader find or understand information better. - We can use size and colour to create a visually appealing poster. |
Informational Report
Learning Intention: Investigate the text structure of informational reports.
Success Criteria:
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Suffixes
Learning Intention: Identify suffixes.
Success Criteria: I can identify words that have a suffixes. I can identify the suffix. I can identify the base word. Some Common Suffixes
-er -or -ful -less -ing -s (-es, -ies) -ed -ly (-ally) -tion/-sion -al -ment -ness -able -dom -y -ence/-ance -en -ity |
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Subject Specific Vocabulary
Learning Intention: Recognise subject specific vocabulary used in information reports.
Success Criteria:
I can identify subject specific vocabulary in a information report.
I can predict what subject specific vocabulary might be included in a information report on a given topic.
Success Criteria:
I can identify subject specific vocabulary in a information report.
I can predict what subject specific vocabulary might be included in a information report on a given topic.
Annotating
Learning Intention: Annotate a text using a range of comprehension strategies. (Whack all that great thinking I do while reading, down on the page)
Success Criteria:
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Sentence Structure
Paragraphs
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Spelling -tion, -sion
Topic Sentences
Learning Intention: Write clear topic sentences.
Success Criteria: - I can identify the topic sentences and reassemble (put together again) a informative paragraph. - I can write a topic sentence that restates the topic of the information report. - I can write a topic sentence that states the topic of the paragraph. - I can write a topic sentence that gives a simple, quick fact. - I can write supporting sentences that include facts and details about the topic of the paragraph. |
Topic Sentences:
- The first sentences in an informative paragraph. - Tells the reader what the rest of the paragraph is about. - Restates (says again) the topic of the whole information report. - States (says) the topic of the paragraph. |