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English Year 4 Text Structure & Organisation

Identify features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text, and understand how texts vary in complexity and technicality depending on the approach to the topic, the purpose and the intended audience

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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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • Presentation Year: 4

    The Purpose, Structure and Features of Texts - Presentation

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

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  • 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...

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  • 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,...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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,...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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.   

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  • 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.  

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  • Worksheet Year: 4 5

    What’s the Purpose?

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

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  • 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. 

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  • 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.  

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • Worksheet Year: 4 5

    Practising the Purpose

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

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  • 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.  

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  • 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....

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • Worksheet Year: 4 5

    Author’s Purpose

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

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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.  

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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.

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