Y6
GPS
Using Formal and Informal Styles Application and Reasoning
Worksheet
Y6
GPS
Using Formal and Informal Styles Application and Reasoning
Worksheet
Use this engaging Year 6 Using Formal and Informal Styles Application and Reasoning worksheet to challenge your children to use different styles in their writing. It is accompanied by our modelling PowerPoint to show children examples of these questions before they try them for themselves.
This worksheet has been differentiated three ways and has one reasoning and two application questions per level. It also comes with full answers to make marking quick and easy.
Curriculum Objectives
- Develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English appendix 2 by: Recognising vocabulary and structures that is appropriate for formal speech and writing, including subjunctive forms
- The difference between vocabulary typical of informal speech and vocabulary appropriate for formal speech and writing [for example, find out – discover; ask for – request; go in – enter]
- The difference between structures typical of informal speech and structures appropriate for formal speech and writing [for example, the use of question tags: He’s your friend, isn’t he?, or the use of subjunctive forms such as If I were or Were they to come in some very formal writing and speech]
