English Year 6 Text Structure & Organisation

Understand how authors often innovate on text structures and play with language features to achieve particular aesthetic, humorous and persuasive purposes and effects

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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...

  • 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 β€” 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: 4 5 6

    Persuasive Words - Upper Primary Reference Card

    This reference card is designed to give students easy access to a list of highly persuasive words when structuring their persuasive writing...

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Persuasive Words - Upper Primary

    This chart provides a useful resource for students to access when structuring their persuasive writing texts. It features one page of positi...

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Persuasive Sentence Starters - Upper Primary

    This set of Persuasive Sentence Starters is designed for upper primary students providing them with some effective sentence starters to acce...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Persuasion

    Persuasion... this poster was created as a reminder when structuring a persuasive writing text. Students are reminded that successful persua...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    More Persuasive Writing Prompts

    This set of 15 persuasive writing prompts are a great resource to display on the IWB for students to access as practise writing exercises be...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Persuasive Writing Prompts

    This selection of persuasive writing prompts are a great resource to display on the IWB for students to access as practise writing exercises...

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