How texts in subjects differ
Identify and describe how texts across the curriculum — such as science procedures, maths word problems, history recounts and health posters — are organised differently and use language features suited to their purposes
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How texts in subjects differ means practising the idea at the table with a short text or prompt and one clear check. We will demo once, then your child tries.
Materials: A short familiar text, poem, or picture book page; Sticky notes or pencil. 1. Say the goal of How texts in subjects differ in plain words once. 2. Adult reads a short stretch aloud and models one think-aloud (predict, notice, or question). 3. Child reads or listens to three short stretches and gives one evidence-based response each time. 4. Fresh check: one fresh evidence-based response. Record and stop. Done: three responses tied to words or pictures in the text. Proof: parent note of examples and results. Stop: End after the fresh check; keep optional challenge for another day.
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Aesop's Fables
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Check understanding
- Point out the stages of a familiar text type and their language features, e.g. a recount's orientation, events in order and closing comment, or a science procedure's goal, materials and numbered steps with command verbs
- Compare a history recount's time words (first, in 1900, later) with an information report's headings and present-tense facts
- Explain why a maths word problem ends with a question, a health poster uses short commands and pictures, or a persuasive speech states, argues and restates its position
“When your child does homework, do they notice that a science experiment sheet, a maths word problem and a history story are set out differently — and why?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- English
- Domain
- Reading Comprehension
- Age range
- Ages 6–12
Standards