English Year 4 Language Text Structure & Organisation

Identify how texts across the curriculum have different language features and are typically organised into characteristic stages depending on purposes

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  • Unit Plan Year: 4

    English Unit: Poetry

    This unit plan has been created to support your students when exploring the varying features, structures and purposes of different types of...

  • Unit Plan Year: 4

    English Unit: The Purpose, Structure and Features of Texts

    This comprehensive unit takes students through the purpose, structure and features of the different text types. The unit begins with a prese...

  • Unit Plan Year: 4

    English Unit: Procedural Texts

    This unit plan has been created to support your students to understand and become increasingly familiar with typical structural stages and...

  • Unit Plan Year: 4

    English Unit: Persuasive Texts

    This unit plan is a great way to support students plan, draft and compose persuasive texts. The unit contains a detailed presentation, an ab...

  • Unit Plan Year: 4

    English Unit: Peeling Paragraphs

    This comprehensive unit plan about paragraphs explains in detail the importance and role of paragraphs and how to successfully structure par...

  • Unit Plan Year: 4

    English Unit: Writing A Narrative

    This ‘Writing a Narrative’ unit is a comprehensive narrative writing guide that will take you through the steps of how to write a well plann...

  • Presentation Year: 4

    The Wonderful World of Poetry - Presentation

    This presentation is a great resource for teachers to use when introducing and revisiting the purpose, structure and features of poems. The...

  • Presentation Year: 4

    The Purpose, Structure and Features of Texts - Presentation

    This presentation demonstrates the different text types, including their purpose, structure and features.   

  • Presentation Year: 4

    Procedural Texts - Presentation

    This presentation has been created to support your students  to understand and become increasingly familiar with typical structural stages a...

  • Presentation Year: 4

    Persuasive Texts - Presentation

    This detailed presentation supports your students when planning and composing persuasive texts. It runs though the structure, text features,...

  • Unit Plan Year: 3 4 5 6

    English Unit: Yahoo Creek: An Australian Mystery by Tohby Riddle

    This five-week persuasive writing unit explores Yahoo Creek: An Australian Mystery by Tohby Riddle, guiding students through the analysis of...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Yahoo Creek: An Australian Mystery Answers

    The Yahoo Creek Suggested Answers booklet provides model responses for all key activities across the persuasive writing unit. It includes sa...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    PEEL for Powerful Paragraph - Display

    This poster helps students structure persuasive paragraphs using the PEEL method: Point, Evidence, Explanation and Link. It supports clear,...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Build a Burger - Display

    This poster helps students build strong persuasive paragraphs using the hamburger method. Each layer of the burger shows what to include: op...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Yahoo Creek - Teaching Notes

    The Teaching Notes page supports implementation of the Yahoo Creek Persuasive Writing Unit for Years 3–6. It outlines the weekly lesson sequ...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Yahoo Creek: An Australian Mystery by Tohby Riddle - Title Page

    The Yahoo Creek unit title page introduces students to the theme of persuasive writing through the lens of historical mystery and storytelli...

  • Unit Plan Year: 3 4 5 6

    English Unit: Just Tricking! by Andy Griffiths

    This five-week narrative unit explores Just Tricking! by Andy Griffiths, engaging students in reading, analysing, and writing humorous stori...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Just Tricking! Answers

    The Suggested Answers booklet provides clear sample responses for all core activities in the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit. It offer...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Just Tricking Task Cards

    The Extension Task Cards provide engaging enrichment activities for the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit. Each card offers a creative c...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Paragraph Planner

    These paragraph planners support students to structure clear, engaging paragraphs in prank narratives. They guide sentence order, voice, and...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Glow & Grow - Just Tricking!

    This reflection sheet guides students to identify strengths and areas for growth in their writing, provide constructive feedback to peers, a...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Just Tricking! Grading Rubric

    The assessment rubric provides a 5-point scale for evaluating students’ summative tasks in the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit. It cov...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Ultimate Prank Project

    This final challenge lets students showcase their learning by creating a sequel, analysing humour style, or designing a comic-strip version...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Ordinary to Outrageous

    This final challenge lets students showcase their learning by creating a sequel, analysing humour style, or designing a comic-strip version...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Giggle Upgrades

    This worksheet helps students practice improving their stories by experimenting with different words and dialogue inspired by the Humour Hac...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Swap and Share

    This partner checklist supports peer feedback by prompting students to look for clarity, humour, and areas to improve in each other’s storie...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Humour Hacks

    These tip sheets explain age-appropriate humour techniques to help students identify, discuss, and use them in their writing. Each chart sho...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Polishing Your Prank

    This editing checklist helps students revise their prank stories for clarity, pacing, and humour. It guides them to self-assess sentence flo...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    View from the Other Side…

    This worksheet guides students to explore how changing the narrator’s point of view can shift humour and meaning. Students practise rewritin...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Sneaky Story Steps

    This tip sheet guides students through the typical Just Tricking! story format. It breaks down the narrative structure into three clear part...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Prank Plot Planners

    These scaffolded narrative planners helps students organise prank stories in the Just Tricking! style. It guides them to plan a clear orient...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Prankster Profiles

    This worksheet helps students explore the main character’s traits in Just Tricking!, compare motivations and choices, and write a diary entr...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Laugh Lab

    This worksheet helps students identify and analyse different humour techniques in a Just Tricking!-style passage, rewrite it to increase its...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Humour Hunters

    This worksheet helps students identify and understand different types of humour used in Just Tricking!. Students practise rewriting a passag...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Just Like Andy!

    This worksheet guides students to plan and write their own short prank story, following Andy Griffiths’ Just Tricking! style — using clear n...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Swap the Scene

    This worksheet helps students practise rewriting a prank scene from Just Tricking! in a completely different style. It teaches them to spot...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Story Building Blocks

    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...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Vocabulary Vibes

    This set supports students to collect and use key words from 'Just Tricking', building a rich word wall that enhances their funny storytelli...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Author Antics

    This worksheet set helps students learn about Andy Griffiths (the author) and Terry Denton (the illustrator). Students discover how they wor...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Cover Capers

    This set of worksheets helps students examine the book cover and title of 'Just Tricking', encouraging them to make predictions about the pl...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Just Tricking - Teaching Notes

    The Teaching Notes page supports delivery of the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit for Years 3–6. It outlines the lesson sequence, curri...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Just Tricking! By Andy Griffiths - Title Page

    This title page introduces the multi-age Year 3–6 unit Just Tricking! – Narrative Writing with Humour. It provides a clear visual overview o...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4

    Author’s Purpose - PIE Poster

    A bright, easy-to-read classroom display poster introducing the concept of the author’s purpose using the PIE acronym – Persuade, Inform, En...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Non-Fiction Task Cards – Colour & B&W + Recording Sheet

    This 32-card task card set helps students explore, analyse, and respond to non-fiction texts in a flexible and engaging way. Students practi...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Pulling Poems Apart - Checklist

    This has been created as a resource for students to utilise when examining poetry. Students work through the checklist, following the steps...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Poetry Quiz

    This poetry quiz makes for a wonderful whole-class review/formative assessment to gauge students’ abilities of the purpose, structure and fe...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Playful Poetic Devices- V2

    Playful Poetic Devices is a rotation activity designed to consolidate the understanding of poetic devices such as puns, neologisms and spoon...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Playful Poetic Devices- V1

    Playful Poetic Devices is a rotation activity designed to consolidate the understanding of poetic devices such as alliteration, nonsense wor...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Poetry Spinner Discussions

    Use this resource to generate discussions about poems that are being examined in your classroom. Students can work in partners or small grou...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Delicious Delights

    This helpful resource is a great way for your students to explore the use of literary devices within the poetic text, The Spelling Lesson wr...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    The Rainbow Serpent

    This helpful resource is a great way for your students to explore the use of literary devices within the poetic text The Rainbow Serpent. Th...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Spelling Lesson

    This helpful resource is a great way for your students to explore the use of literary devices within the poetic text, The Spelling Lesson wr...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Splendid Spoonerisms

    This worksheet provides opportunities for students to experiment with spoonerisms and asks them to explain how and why they are included in...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Tell me Why?

    This helpful resource is a great way for you and your students to identify and solidify important terminology related to poetry. Together wi...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Purpose, Structure and Features of Poems - Student Reference Cards

    Hand out these useful reference cards to your students when exploring the purpose, structure and features of poems.   

  • Worksheet Year: 4 5

    Check In- The Purpose, Structure and Features of Texts- Year 5

    Use these quick check-ins to assess student understanding of the purpose, structure and features of different text types.  

  • Worksheet Year: 4 5

    What’s the Purpose?

    Solve the joke by identifying the purpose of the different text types.  

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Text Types and Genres

    This display provides a visual prompt for students when learning about text types and genres.Enlarge to A3 and laminate for multiple uses. 

  • Worksheet Year: 4 5

    Check In- The Purpose, Structure and Features of Texts- Year 4

    Use these quick check ins to assess student understanding of the purpose, structure and features of different texts types.  

  • Resource Year: 4

    The Purpose, Structure and Features of Texts Quiz - Year 4

    This 10-question quiz makes a wonderful whole class warmup, review or formative assessment tool to gauge students’ level of understanding on...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Convince Me!- Year 4

    These hilarious scenario cards will have students creating some weird and wacky ways to convince you to buy their product. Students work...

  • Worksheet Year: 4 5

    Practising the Purpose

    Use this fun resource to encourage students to match their style of writing to the intended purpose.  

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Finding the Features

    Use these texts to help students identify the different features of the three text types- persuasive, informative and imaginative.  

  • Worksheet Year: 4 5

    What Am I? - The Great Barrier Reef

    Have students consolidate their knowledge of text purpose, structure and features by identifying and organising the structure of this text....

  • Worksheet Year: 4 5

    Sort the Structure- Non- Fiction

    Looking for a super fun way to reinforce Text Structure with your students? Students will read each description or example, identify the...

  • Worksheet Year: 4 5

    Sort the Structure- Fiction

    Looking for a super fun way to reinforce Text Structure with your students? Students cut and paste the descriptions of the structure of a...

  • Worksheet Year: 4 5

    Author’s Purpose

    Solve the riddle by identifying the purpose of the different text types.

  • Worksheet Year: 4 5

    Puzzling Purposes with Pat

    Help Pat identify the three purposes of texts, their definitions and matching text types by cutting out and correctly assembling the puzzle...

  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Narrative Text Structure Display

    This display provides a visual prompt for students when identifying the structure of narrative texts. Enlarge to A3 and laminate for mult...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Informative Text Structure Display

    This display provides a visual prompt for students when identifying the structure of informative texts. Enlarge to A3 and laminate for mu...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Purpose, Text Types and Features- Snapshot

    This display provides a visual prompt for students when identifying the purpose, text types and features of the three texts types.  

  • Resource Year: 4 5

    Fact or Fiction?

    This display provides a visual prompt for students when identifying the difference between factual and fictions texts. Enlarge to A3 and...

  • Resource Year: 4

    The Purpose, Structure and Features of Texts - Student Reference Card

    These student reference cards are fitted two to a page and should be cut in half. They provide students with a reference to assist them when...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Poetic Text Review

    This helpful resource is a great way to check your students’ understanding of literary devices and deliberate word play, in literary texts....

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Poetry Analysis

    This helpful resource is a great way to check your students understanding of literary devices and deliberate word play, in literary texts. W...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Sound Play Worksheet

    This helpful resource is a great way for your students to explore the use of sound play as literary devices in texts. The worksheet focuses...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Neologisms Worksheet

    This helpful resource is a great way for your students to explore the use of neologisms as a literary device in texts. It has been created a...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Fun with Puns Worksheet

    This helpful resource is a great way for your students to explore the use of puns as a literary device in texts. It has been created as part...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Improve My Procedure

    This worksheet encourages your students choose a ‘simple’ procedural text displayed on the worksheet to ‘improve’ it, making it more detaile...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Language Features

    This worksheet encourages your students to recognise and work with language features of a procedural text (verbs,  adverbs and subject-speci...

  • Resource Year: 4

    How To Make a Mexican God Eye Worksheet

    This comprehension worksheet encourages your students to recognise and identify language features and answer questions based on the procedur...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Let’s Taco About’ It!

    A fun resource focused on sequencing the method of a procedure for making Tacos. Students can work in pairs, as a class or individually to s...

  • Resource Year: 4

    How to Make A Mexican God Eye

    This is a great resource to have handy when exploring procedural texts with your students. We have a  worksheet within our Year 4 unit plan...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Persuasive Texts Scaffold Template

    This helpful scaffold encourages and supports your students to compose a correctly structured persuasive text. It provides students with sec...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Persuasion Exploration

    A great example of a persuasive text that can be used in multiple ways within your classroom. This text could be annotated through the explo...

  • Resource Year: 4

    The Art of Persuasion Worksheet

    This handy worksheet will support your students to consolidate their understanding of persuasive language devices by matching each one liste...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Language of Persuasion Worksheet

    This cut and paste worksheet will support your students to consolidate their understanding of persuasive language features by categorising t...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Literary Devices & Language Features - Poster Set

    These posters were created to support student learning of Literary Devices and Language Features. They feature a description and a clear exa...

  • Worksheet Year: 4 5

    Sequencing Persuasive Texts Level 3

    Students cut and rearrange examples of persuasive texts to help cement their understanding of the structure of persuasive texts.

  • Resource Year: 4

    Spoonerism Board Game

    Use this bright one-page game as a fun and interactive way for students to learn more about the literary device of spoonerisms.

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Parts of Poetry - Poster

    Classroom posters highlighting the different parts of poetry, with examples of each poetry element. A great resource to accompany the Year 5...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Parts of Poetry

    This resource was created to define and provide examples of the various language devices used to create poetry and prose. 

  • Resource Year: 4 5

    Poetry Posters

    This set of posters explains the meaning of, and provdies an example of, an ode, anthem, song and shape poem. 

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Nonsense Poetry

    This 4-page worksheet introduces nonsense poems and provides a number of activities to consolidate learning as students create their own non...

  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Poetry Pack

    This poetry pack is a resource that we know will become a huge favourite. It contains a 'how-to' guide on 6 different forms of poetry includ...

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