Useful job
Choose a text that fits a pretend visitor’s job.
Purpose
Identify audience and purpose in informative, imaginative and persuasive texts and explain how an image extends meaning.
Ready to enter
C11/C12 include full short texts and explicit image descriptions. Children can listen and view; print reading is observed separately.
Kit
C11/C12, two text cards, optional sketch space.
Compare two texts · 5–8 minutes
Read C11’s map note and imaginative snail scene. Both concern a toy garden, but one helps someone find a place and one tells an event. Ask for a word or layout clue that supports the difference.
Model a supported choice · 8–12 minutes
Choose the map note for a visitor looking for the pretend seed table and point to its route labels. Choose the story for a reader who wants a funny character event. Explain that a large labelled sign in the supplied image emphasises the seed table; do not claim it is larger than another sign when the source gives no comparison.
Try persuasion · 10–15 minutes
Read C12’s toy concert invitation and neutral schedule. Compare an inviting evaluative phrase with the schedule’s time order. Neither is a promise of a real public event. Ask what an image adds that the words do not already say.
Make a matched recommendation · 12–20 minutes
Children choose a reader/job card, name the best supplied text and explain one language or visual clue. They then add a small image or caption that extends a specific meaning. A text-only description can replace drawing.
Finish · 5 minutes
Ask the reader to locate the added meaning. Keep the source identity and the child’s reason; do not grade artistic polish or presume a picture is factual evidence about a real site.
Choose a way to take part
Match cards
Place three reader/job cards beside complete texts, then choose one match and explain a clue. The matching set is a discussion tool, not an automatic score.
Listen and describe
Hear the full texts and image descriptions. Use pointing or a dictated reason. Image meaning remains available without vision or drawing.
Read and caption
Read appropriate short parts, then write a recommendation and an extending caption. Observe decoding separately from text-purpose reasoning.
What to notice
Notice an audience-purpose match and a specific clue. An extending image adds or clarifies meaning; it is not simply a decorative picture.
Curriculum focus
AC9E3LY01, AC9E3LY03, AC9E3LA03, AC9E3LA09
Home offer
Use the two toy concert texts to choose one for a pretend performer and one for a pretend visitor. No online search or event booking is needed.
Longer make
Make a two-sided visitor card: route information on one side and a short imaginative scene on the other, labelled so the reader knows the different jobs.
Timing and scope
Times are unpiloted offers. Shorten or split while keeping the language job; no required prior fortnight mastery or guaranteed outcome.