What Is This Text For? (Grades 1 and 2)
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What Is This Text For? (Grades 1 and 2)
Text purposes for Grades 1 and 2: read five short texts and tell whether each tells a story, recounts what happened, gives an opinion, reports facts, or explains why something happens, then name the words and parts that show each purpose. With an answer key.
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Text Types by PurposeA teaching handout to hand out before this sheet: the rule, worked examples and common mistakes.- Skill
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- About 20 minutes
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- Related curriculum
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Tell made-up stories from texts that give facts, and name kinds of texts by their features: fables, fairy tales, myths, tall tales, poems, plays, biographies and autobiographies; in Grades 6 to 8, the genres of fiction (realistic, historical, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, adventure) and the speeches of a play (dialogue, monologue, soliloquy, aside), and how a playwright shows a character through dialogue and stage directions.
Reviewed by Ms. Emily Bennett, Teacher and Mrs. Sarah Thompson, Teacher. How we check worksheets
How to use this sheet
- Bring a few real books or texts to the sheet: a storybook, a cookbook, a poem, a newspaper page.
- Have the child give a clue from the text for each answer: talking animals, facts, rhymes, headings.
- Ask what the text is for: to tell a story, to give facts, to persuade or to entertain.
Common mistakes
- Thinking every book with pictures is fiction. Nonfiction books have pictures too.
- Mixing up a biography, written by someone else, and an autobiography, written by the person.
- Thinking an advertisement just gives information. It is written to sell or persuade.
