A classroom activity designed to be cut up, sorted, and responded to

1. Writing Prestige A sorting and understanding exercise

4. Short story e.g. So Much Water So Close to Home

5. Business letter Dear Sir/Madam,

6. Non-fiction book e.g. The History of Geelong

7. Sentence written in Standard English The cat sat on the mat

8. Text book for university students e.g. Statistical Methods for Social Investigations

9. Text message to a friend How r u

10. Formal essay Macbeth is a lesson in rightful authority. Discuss.

11. Newspaper article A horror weekend on the state's roads worsened overnight...

12. Screenplay Avatar script

13. Advertising jingle e.g. Coke is it

14. Play for the stage West Side Story script

15. Novel e.g.. Twilight

16. Sentence written in Non-standard English The kat sit on matt

17. Single word in Standard English eloquent

18. Single word spelt unusually sereus

19. Paragraph expressing one idea

20. Poem e.g. Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone...

21. Song lyrics e.g. They got married early, never had no money...

22. Rambling paragraph

23. Email to a friend

24. Message on a social networking site

25. Romance novel e.g. Promise Me Heaven

26. Mystery novel Murder on the Orient Express

27. “ Serious” novel Of Mice and Men

28. Autobiography The Autobiography of Malcolm X