Describe how texts across the curriculum use different language features and structures relevant to their purpose
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Engage your students with our comprehensive unit plan on factual recounts, autobiographies and sequential explanations. This resource inclu...
This unit plan has been created to support your students to understand and become increasingly familiar with typical structural stages and l...
Use this engaging presentation on factual recounts, autobiographies and sequential explanations. Tailored for educators, it provides a conci...
This presentation has been created to support your students understand and become increasingly familiar with typical structural stages and...
This presentation walks you through the definition of past, present and future tense and examples of how these are written within a sentence...
This Presentation was written to walk students through the skills they’ll need for persuasive texts for year 3. This is part of a bigger uni...
This five-week persuasive writing unit explores Yahoo Creek: An Australian Mystery by Tohby Riddle, guiding students through the analysis of...
The Yahoo Creek Suggested Answers booklet provides model responses for all key activities across the persuasive writing unit. It includes sa...
This poster helps students structure persuasive paragraphs using the PEEL method: Point, Evidence, Explanation and Link. It supports clear,...
This poster helps students build strong persuasive paragraphs using the hamburger method. Each layer of the burger shows what to include: op...
The Teaching Notes page supports implementation of the Yahoo Creek Persuasive Writing Unit for Years 3–6. It outlines the weekly lesson sequ...
The Yahoo Creek unit title page introduces students to the theme of persuasive writing through the lens of historical mystery and storytelli...
This five-week narrative unit explores Just Tricking! by Andy Griffiths, engaging students in reading, analysing, and writing humorous stori...
The Suggested Answers booklet provides clear sample responses for all core activities in the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit. It offer...
The Extension Task Cards provide engaging enrichment activities for the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit. Each card offers a creative c...
These paragraph planners support students to structure clear, engaging paragraphs in prank narratives. They guide sentence order, voice, and...
This reflection sheet guides students to identify strengths and areas for growth in their writing, provide constructive feedback to peers, a...
The assessment rubric provides a 5-point scale for evaluating students’ summative tasks in the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit. It cov...
This final challenge lets students showcase their learning by creating a sequel, analysing humour style, or designing a comic-strip version...
This final challenge lets students showcase their learning by creating a sequel, analysing humour style, or designing a comic-strip version...
This worksheet helps students practice improving their stories by experimenting with different words and dialogue inspired by the Humour Hac...
This partner checklist supports peer feedback by prompting students to look for clarity, humour, and areas to improve in each other’s storie...
These tip sheets explain age-appropriate humour techniques to help students identify, discuss, and use them in their writing. Each chart sho...
This editing checklist helps students revise their prank stories for clarity, pacing, and humour. It guides them to self-assess sentence flo...
This worksheet guides students to explore how changing the narrator’s point of view can shift humour and meaning. Students practise rewritin...
This tip sheet guides students through the typical Just Tricking! story format. It breaks down the narrative structure into three clear part...
These scaffolded narrative planners helps students organise prank stories in the Just Tricking! style. It guides them to plan a clear orient...
This worksheet helps students explore the main character’s traits in Just Tricking!, compare motivations and choices, and write a diary entr...
This worksheet helps students identify and analyse different humour techniques in a Just Tricking!-style passage, rewrite it to increase its...
This worksheet helps students identify and understand different types of humour used in Just Tricking!. Students practise rewriting a passag...
This worksheet helps students practise rewriting a prank scene from Just Tricking! in a completely different style. It teaches them to spot...
This set teaches students how to break down a narrative into key parts, rewrite scenes in a new style, and plan their own short stories insp...
This set supports students to collect and use key words from 'Just Tricking', building a rich word wall that enhances their funny storytelli...
This worksheet set helps students learn about Andy Griffiths (the author) and Terry Denton (the illustrator). Students discover how they wor...
This set of worksheets helps students examine the book cover and title of 'Just Tricking', encouraging them to make predictions about the pl...
The Teaching Notes page supports delivery of the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit for Years 3–6. It outlines the lesson sequence, curri...
This title page introduces the multi-age Year 3–6 unit Just Tricking! – Narrative Writing with Humour. It provides a clear visual overview o...
A bright, easy-to-read classroom display poster introducing the concept of the author’s purpose using the PIE acronym – Persuade, Inform, En...
This 32-card task card set helps students explore, analyse, and respond to non-fiction texts in a flexible and engaging way. Students practi...
The Fiction Text Features – Posters set includes colourful, student-friendly visual explanations of key narrative elements, such as: • Ti...
This matching puzzle activity helps students connect titles, descriptions and examples of common non-fiction texts. It encourages understand...
These engaging puzzles help students match common features of fictional texts, such as characters, setting, dialogue and illustrations, with...
Encourage critical thinking with these vibrant magnifying glass templates! Teachers can print them on thick cards or let students cut them o...
This resource includes a checklist for fictional and non-fictional texts and printable B&W magnifying glass templates. Students assemble the...
This assessment focuses on students' comprehension of text elements in the life cycle of a tadpole. It gauges their ability to identify purp...
Enhance your English class with this comprehensive quiz on factual recounts, autobiographies and sequential explanations. Tailored for forma...
Engage students in active learning with our sequential explanation resource. Challenge them to unravel jumbled text, promoting comprehension...
As detectives, students uncover structural elements of sequential explanations, such as a title, a introduction, sequenced paragraphs, concl...
Engage your students with this sequential explanation on the life cycle of a butterfly. Structured with a captivating title, introduction, s...
Engage students in understanding autobiographical structure with our interactive activity. Foster comprehension as they identify and arrange...
Uncover the secrets of autobiographies with this resource. Designed to enhance students understanding of structure and features, they will a...
Explore the autobiographical journey of Ada Jasmine Jones, crafted with chronological precision, vivid details and subjective reflections. T...
Engage students in mastering factual recount structures with this interactive activity! Students identify and sequence key components, honin...
Uncover the secrets of factual recounts with this resource. Hunt down third person perspectives, past tense clues and objective language. Pe...
Engage students with a vivid factual recount of a school swimming carnival. This resource skillfully employs the third person, past tense, c...
Engage your students with our insightful series of posters. Tailored for educators, these visually appealing resources break down each genre...
Empower your students with a comprehensive reference card on factual recounts, autobiographies and sequential explanations. This invaluable...
This display provides a visual prompt for students when learning about text types and genres.Enlarge to A3 and laminate for multiple uses.
This display provides a visual prompt for students when identifying the structure of informative texts. Enlarge to A3 and laminate for mu...
A handy student scaffold students can use, to provide structure when they are learning to write procedural texts. This can also be used as p...
This stimulus can be used as inspiration for students to write their own procedural texts. They can be printed or simply displayed on your i...
The Procedural Texts Quiz requires students to answer a range of questions stemming from the Procedural Texts Unit to cover both text struct...
This worksheet encourages your students choose a ‘simple’ procedural text displayed on the worksheet to ‘improve’ it, making it more detaile...
This worksheet encourages your students to recognise and work with language features of a procedural text (verbs and adverbs). Students fill...
This worksheet encourages your students to recognise and identify language features of a procedural text. The procedural text, ‘How to Make...
This worksheet encourages your students to correctly sequence the procedural text ‘How to Make an Egg Parachute’. The procedural text, ‘How...
This is a great resource to have handy when exploring procedural texts with your students. We have some worksheets within our Year 3 unit pl...
These handy reference cards have been created to support your students to understand and become increasingly familiar with typical structura...
The Look and Write resource cards have been created to encourage students to create extended noun groups, as well as extend their descriptio...
The Past, Present, and Future Quiz is an auto-timed quiz that requires students to identify adverbs. You can run this as an assessment acti...
This worksheet is part of a larger unit on past, present and future tense. Practise the skill of identifying past, present and future tense...
This worksheet is part of a larger unit on past, present and future tense. This hands-on and engaging worksheet gives you the opportunity to...
This worksheet is part of a larger unit on past, present and future tense. This worksheet provides the opportunity to change the inflectiona...
This worksheet is part of a larger unit on past, present and future tense. This worksheet provides numerous sentence cards to sort into eith...
This student reference card is part of a larger unit on past, present and future tense and provides a definition and examples of the concept...
This resource is part of a larger unit on past, present and future tense. Use this Inflectional Endings mini book to practise using differen...
This worksheet is part of a larger unit on past, present and future tense. Practise changing the inflectional endings of words in order to c...
Introducing a comprehensive resource for educators, encompassing annotated texts across various genres such as Information Reports, Procedur...
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