This pack includes various scaffolds to assist students when planning to write an informative text- information report, explanation, description, biography etc. These graphic organisers can be adapted to a variety of informative texts and focus on various ways to plan and gather information.
Included in the pack:
*Informative Text poster outlining various types of informative texts.
*Scaffold highlighting text structure- introduction, body, conclusion.
*Scaffold to highlight intended audience and purpose of text
*Scaffold to encourage elaboration on one subtopic by asking why? Answering each why question with another why allows students to develop their idea further.
*Scaffold to elaborate three subtopics related to the topic, asking students to find an example and evidence for each.
*Scaffold to organise various facts about the topic. This can be used to assist with paragraphs.
*Scaffold where students can pose questions about the topic and use these as subheadings in their informative text.
Each activity card prints out A4 in size.
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
Understand that different types of texts have identifiable text structures and language features that help the text serve its purpose (ACELA1463)
Understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of written texts (ACELA1479)
Understand how texts vary in complexity and technicality depending on the approach to the topic, the purpose and the intended audience (ACELA1490)
Investigate how the organisation of texts into chapters, headings, subheadings, home pages and sub pages for online texts and according to chronology or topic can be used to predict content and assist navigation (ACELA1797)