English Year 2 Text Structure & Organisation

Understand that different types of texts have identifiable text structures and language features that help the text serve its purpose

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  • Unit Plan Year: F 1 2

    English Unit: K-2 Booklet- Representation

    This Representation Workbook supports K–2 students in exploring how ideas, people, places, animals, and events are portrayed across differen...

  • Unit Plan Year: F 1 2

    English Unit: K-2 Booklet- Perspective and Argument

    This Perspective and Argument Workbook supports K–2 students in exploring perspective and argument through creative, reflective, and text-ba...

  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    English Unit: Types of Texts

    This engaging unit for lower primary students explores how language shapes preferences and text appreciation. Students compare text organisa...

  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    English Unit: Narrative Writing

    This comprehensive unit takes students through writing narratives. The unit begins with a presentation to assist teachers in demonstrating t...

  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    English Unit: Exploring Persuasive Texts

    This unit plan has been created to support your students to identify the purpose and audience of persuasive texts and create short persuasiv...

  • Presentation Year: 2

    Types of Texts -Presentation

    This engaging presentation for lower primary explores text types, comparing narratives, informative texts, poems and brochures. Students lea...

  • Presentation Year: 2

    Narrative Writing Presentation

    This presentation is an excellent resource for teachers introducing and revisiting Narrative Writing. The presentation begins by looking at...

  • Presentation Year: 2

    Exploring Persuasive Texts - Presentation

    This presentation has been designed to support your students identify the purpose and audience of persuasive texts and create short persuasi...

  • 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...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Character - Title Page

    Aligned with the NSW English Year B Units and Australian Curriculum V9, this title page supports the Character Workbook.

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3

    Fiction Text Features - Posters

    The Fiction Text Features – Posters set includes colourful, student-friendly visual explanations of key narrative elements, such as:Β  Β β€’Β Β Ti...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Types of Texts - Grading Rubric

    This marking guide provides a 5-point rubric for assessing Year 2 student responses to the Exploring and Comparing Texts assessment. It focu...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Types of Texts - Assessment

    This assessment supports Year 2 students in analysing texts to appreciate language use, identify organisational differences and compare pres...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Types of Texts - Quiz

    This quiz helps upper primary students explore how language is used to appreciate texts, express preferences and understand different text t...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Tell Me About It!

    This worksheet helps students explore how language is used to appreciate texts by identifying the title, author and type of text, summarisin...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Appreciating Texts

    This worksheet helps students develop skills in expressing opinions about texts using precise language. Featuring a poem about a water dropl...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Exploring Preferences

    This collaborative worksheet helps students learn and record their classmates' preferences using guided question stems. It focuses on practi...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Say it Your Way!

    This creative activity engages lower primary students in deciding how to inform or persuade the community about a new beachside resort. Stud...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Comparing and Contrasting Texts

    This graphic organiser supports students in comparing two text types, focusing on their organisation, features and purpose. It encourages cr...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Same, Same but Different

    This worksheet helps lower primary students compare narrative and informational texts by exploring their purpose, organisation and language...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Match the Features - Non-Fiction

    This matching puzzle activity helps students connect titles, descriptions and examples of common non-fiction texts. It encourages understand...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Match the Features - Fiction

    These engaging puzzles help students match common features of fictional texts, such as characters, setting, dialogue and illustrations, with...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Troublesome Texts

    This worksheet helps middle primary students distinguish between fiction and non-fiction texts. It guides them to identify text features, or...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3

    Text Feature Finders - Colour

    Encourage critical thinking with these vibrant magnifying glass templates! Teachers can print them on thick cards or let students cut them o...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Text Feature Finders - B&W

    This resource includes a checklist for fictional and non-fictional texts and printable B&W magnifying glass templates. Students assemble the...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Feature Finder - Non-Fiction

    This interactive worksheet helps lower primary students identify non-fiction text features, such as diagrams, glossaries and captions, in a...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Feature Finder - Fiction

    This interactive worksheet helps lower primary students identify fiction text features, such as diagrams, glossaries and captions, in a fun...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Features of Texts

    Students identify the purpose of text snippets- recount, narrate, express opinion, inform, poetry and explain- by colour-coding them. This r...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Sorting Text Types

    This sorting activity lower primary students identify the main purposes of different text types: to persuade, inform, or entertain. Students...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    What is the Purpose?

    This activity introduces students to text purposes- persuade, inform and entertain- by sorting text titles into categories. It’s an engaging...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Exploring and Comparing Texts - Student Reference Card

    This student reference card provides Year 2 students with a simple overview of the unit, including key concepts such as appreciating texts,...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Halloween Booklet - Lower Primary

    Dive into a world of Halloween excitement tailored for our youngest learners! This 40-page booklet is packed with spooktacular activities, i...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Storytelling Cards

    The "Storytelling Cards" resource is a versatile tool designed to ignite creativity and enhance narrative skills in students. With a collect...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Storybook Passport

    The Storybook Passport, along with its adorable boarding passes, is your ticket to a world of imagination and exploration! This interactive...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Storybook Adventure Map

    Embark on a journey through the Storybook Adventure Map, a whimsical guide to the realms of storytelling. Navigate Character Cove, Setting S...

  • Worksheet Year: 5 6

    Easter Pack - Upper Primary

    Elevate Easter celebrations for upper primary students (Years 5-6) with our dynamic Easter Pack! Engage in challenging math puzzles, creativ...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Easter Pack - Middle Primary

    Unleash the spirit of Easter with our vibrant pack designed for students in Years 3-4! From egg-cellent word searches to math challenges wit...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Easter Pack - Lower Primary

    Dive into a world of Easter excitement tailored for our youngest learners! This pack is filled with delightful activities, including bunny m...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Who Said That?

    Use these worksheets to help your students master the use of dialogue in their writing. In addition, each sheet provides the opportunity for...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Make It Your Own!

    This task asks students to follow the process of writing a narrative to create their version of a familiar story. Students are provided with...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Sizzle or Fizzle?

    Use these worksheets to tackle common problems in writing. The set included worksheets on:- Fragments- Run On Sentences- Boring Sentences

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Powerful Prepositional Phrases

    Students' complete sentences by adding an appropriate prepositional phrase.Β 

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Prepositions with Peter

    A fun worksheet that asks students to use prepositions to describe where the bee, could be, in relation to Peter. A fun way to introduce pre...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Powerful Prepositions

    This worksheet is designed to help students identify a range of prepositions. In addition, this reference can be used when students are requ...

  • Worksheet Year: 2 3

    Magnify the Moment

    Help students add more detail to their writing by making a moment EXPLODE! This worksheet outlines steps to gather all the details required...

  • Worksheet Year: 2 3

    Magnify the Moment - Planning Sheet

    Use this planning sheet to guide students when magnifying a moment in their writing.Β Β  Β Β 

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Said is Dead!

    Have students realise how many better words are out there than said! Encourage students to include better vocabulary when describing how the...

  • Worksheet Year: 2 3

    Begin with a Bang

    Sick of bland beginnings to your student’s narrative writing? Then start with a bang! This worksheet allows students to practice beginning t...

  • Worksheet Year: 2 3

    Informative Introductions

    This worksheet can assist students in coming up with a range of introductions for narrative writing. In addition, students learn that brains...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Narrative Texts - Student Reference Card

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

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Done writing - Now What?

    Use these bookmarks to prompt students after the completion of their narrative writing.Β 

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    What Did They Say?

    Use these worksheets to help your students master dialogue in their writing. Students must first develop appropriate speech based on the pic...

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Spin a Story - Narrative

    Have students use these fun and engaging spinners to plan for their next narrative writing piece. You can print one large copy to use with t...

  • Worksheet Year: 2 3

    Narrative Writing Organiser - Plan and Prepare - Portrait

    Use the story writing templates to help students plan for writing or have them unpack narratives to see how all stories follow the same stru...

  • Worksheet Year: 2 3

    Narrative Writing Organiser - Plan and Prepare - Landscape

    Use the story writing templates to help students plan for writing or have them unpack narratives to see how all stories follow the same stru...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3

    Narrative Structure Poster

    Print and display this simple narrative poster when introducing this concept to your class. The display provides a fun and memorable way to...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Create A Character - Set One

    This set of 30 Create A Character - Prompts are designed to encourage creative thinking and writing about characters. The prompts have been...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Look, Write & Colour - Writing Prompts Lower

    This set of 30 Look, Write & Colour - Picture Writing Prompts are designed to inspire writing in your classroom. The prompts have been desig...

  • Resource Year: 1 2

    Persuasive Text Template

    This persuasive writing resource has been created to provide students with a scaffold when writing persuasive texts. A great way for student...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Would You Rather? - Worksheet

    This fun worksheet will get your students using persuasive language in the classroom! They read each scenario displayed on the page, colour...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Persuade Me Game

    Want to include an engaging and interactive resource into your study of persuasive texts? This game is for your classroom! This can be playe...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Fix My Structure! - Worksheet

    This worksheet will support your students to correctly structure a persuasive text. Students read each section, cut them out individually an...

  • Resource Year: 2

    For or Against? - Worksheet

    This worksheet will support your students to identify for and against statements when learning about persuasive texts. Students read each st...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Persuasive Texts Student Reference Cards

    This handy resource Β has been created as a student reference tool for persuasive texts. A great resource for students to stick into their wr...

  • Resource Year: 1 2

    Persuasive Texts Posters

    A great class display to have in your classroom when exploring persuasive texts. This Β display will support students to structure their pers...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Fiction and Non-Fiction Roll and Match

    This game is a great way to compare if objects are real or fictitious. Students roll a dice and decide if the object they land on is fiction...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Sequencing Persuasive Texts Level 1

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

  • Resource Year: 2

    Story Map Narrative Mapping Ver. 2

    Further refine students' narrative skills with this second version of the narrative mapping resource. Students deepen their understanding of...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Story Map Narrative Mapping

    Develop students' storytelling skills with this narrative mapping resource. Students learn to structure and organise their narratives, enhan...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Narrative Sequencing - Year 1 & 2

    Students will use comprehension strategies to understand narrative texts and knowledge of text structures to sort pieces into the correct na...

  • Resource Year: 1 2

    Text Type Sequencing

    This resource was designed to assist students in consolidating their knowledge of recounts. It requires students to sequence simple recounts...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Whats My Sequence

    In "Whats My Sequence?", students must read a set of actions and put them back in the correct chronological sequence.

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