Teaching Suggestions
Identifying Text Forms and General Purpose
Emergent (K-1)p.72
Use labels when talking with students about different types of texts(This is a poster about Remembrance Day; Today we are going to read a poem; etc.). Talk with children about real and imaginary texts and have them identify various texts they read and view in terms of whether they are real or imaginary. |
Early (1-2)p.84
Expose students to a wide variety of types of text, and to a number of the same kinds of texts so that they can see similarities and begin to recognize common elements (e.g., poems, letters, cumulative tales, fairy tales, circular tales, information texts, different types of illustrations, posters, databases). |
Transitional(3-4)p. 98Discuss with students some of the basic features of types of text and
engage them in thinking about how texts they read/view fit with these features. (e.g., poetry, fairy tales, different types of illustration, posters, advertisements, TV shows, magazine articles, weather reports, photo essays, maps). |