By clicking the link above you can go directly to the site I used to make this fake SMS.
My husband used this activity with his class last week (year 4/5) in their study of Boy Overboard. The SMS above is one that a student made. It shows a conversation between Mr Nassar (the neighbour of Jamal) and the government.
The students all wrote draft SMS messages in their English books and later they were typed using the Fake iPhone Text Generator.
You could do this with any novel study. My husband said that this activity was really engaging for the students, and as I read over his class' work I could tell they really understood many of the issues and subtext in the novel. Even my husband's new arrival student completed a really great SMS with the help of his ESL teacher.